Reviews
Diane Beebe, MD,
Professor Emeritus
and Past Chair Department of Family Medicine, University,
Mississippi School of Medicine. Past Chair American Board of
Family Medicine (ABFM)
Lee
Valentine, DO, Medical Director Mississippi State University Physician
Assistant Program and past Program Director of EC Healthnet Family
Medicine Residency Program.
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Ambulatory
medicine
is medical care that takes place outside the hospital (outpatient care).
It is the first resource for patients. Primary care providers provide this
care. They include family physicians, internists, pediatricians,
geriatricians, gynecologists/obstetricians, nurse practitioners, and
physician assistants. Overall, primary care providers offer services from
head to toe and from birth to death. Services include disease prevention.
Infectious disease prevention through immunizations, hypertension and
diabetes sequelae prevention, osteoporotic fracture prevention) and
screenings (hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, osteoporosis, cervical
cancer, lung cancer), diagnosis and treatment of many types of illnesses
(diabetes, hypertension, hypothyroidism, carpal tunnel syndrome). They
also provide non-disease care, including birth control and obstetrical
care. They provide education related to disease prevention and treatment,
injury care (laceration repair, fracture and sprain care), counseling on
many topics, including smoking cessation and weight loss, and coordination
of care through subspecialists.
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