Scope of Family Medicine

For thousands of years, doctors as generalists, provided all of the medical care available. They diagnosed and treated illnesses, performed surgery, and delivered babies. With the advances in medical science and technology, and an even expending medical knowledge, many physicians chose to limit their practices to specific, defined areas of medicine – specialisation.

After World War, the number of specialists and subspecialists in many Western countries increased at a phenomenal rate, while the number of generalists declined dramatically. There was an increasing public concern about the fragmentation of personalised health care and the shortage of personal physicians who could provide initial, continuing and comprehensive care. This started the development of family medicine or general practice as a specialty in USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and throughout the world. The concept of the generalist was reborn with the establishment of family medicine/general practice as an unique medical specialty.

Family medicine is a three-dimensional specialty, incorporating (1) knowledge, (2) skill and (3) process. Although knowledge and skill may be shared with other specialties, the family medicine process is unique. At the centre of this process is the patient-physician relationship with the patient viewed in the context of the family and their social surrounding. It is the extent to which this relationship is valued, developed, nurtured and maintained that distinguishes family medicine from all other specialties which may be restricted by age (eg.geriatrics, paediatrics), sex (eg. Obstetrics & Gynaecology), organ system (eg. cardiology, neurology) or diseases (eg. Infectious disease).

The first-line provision of primary health care

Family doctors have a wide range of skills that help them treat patients of any age, gender, and with various health problems.

Our family doctors are personable and empathetic to the concerns of patients. We offer consultation services for:

– Acute medical condition

– Chronic diseases management

– Infection

– Preventive Healthcare

– Other Services

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