About General Practitioner Speciality

A general practitioner is an ideally qualified medical professional who has specific knowledge and skills to provide personal, family and community-oriented, comprehensive health care. A general practitioner is usually the point of first medical contact within the health care system, providing open and unlimited access to its users, dealing with all health problems regardless of the age, gender, culture or any other characteristic of the person concerned.
A general practitioner makes apt use of health care resources through the co-ordination of care, working with other professionals in the primary health care setting, managing the interface with other specialties. He/she diagnoses and manages simultaneously both acute and chronic health problems of individual patients.