How to Use primary care in a Sentence

primary care

noun
Definition of primary carenext
Synonyms for primary carenext
  • He provides primary care to inner-city patients.
  • But getting in to see her primary care doctor could take a month.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Sometimes, though, there’s an issue at hand that warrants a trip to an ob-gyn or primary care provider.
    — Mara Santilli, SELF, 26 Jan. 2024
  • In the United States, there is little incentive to work in primary care.
    — Carson Terbush, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Talk to your primary care provider about your symptoms and what treatment is available.
    — Marian Anne Eure, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2023
  • People in earlier stages of CKM may be screened by their primary care provider.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 18 Oct. 2023
  • One of the problems is that there is no primary care, so that’s why women are not getting any sort of prenatal care.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The first step is to visit a primary care physician or a sleep specialist, says Epstein.
    — Emma Obregón Dominguez, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
  • The bill would also rethink how primary care doctors are paid.
    — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Your primary care provider can perform a simple urine test to determine whether protein is present in your pee and how much is there.
    — Sarah Bradley, Women's Health, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Call your primary care doctor to set up an appointment, or reach out to a trusted adult or school counselor.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 6 Jan. 2023
  • By late 2022, the hospital had closed its labor and delivery unit and lost most of its primary care doctors.
    — Cecilia Nowell, CBS News, 18 July 2023
  • None of my training prepared me to become a primary care physician in the age of the electronic medical record.
    — Russell Johnson, STAT, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Despite all the factors that put them at higher risk for lung cancer, neither of them were asked by their primary care doctors to get screened.
    — Simar Bajaj, STAT, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Think about reaching out to your primary care provider to have a conversation about sleep issues.
    — WIRED, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Similar shortages of primary care providers were observed in parts of Ward 8.
    — Janice Kai Chen, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The next day, Lanter visited her primary care physician.
    — Zara Hanawalt, Parents, 27 Feb. 2024
  • One Medical, a high-end primary care network available in more than two dozen cities, was founded in 2007.
    — Caroline O'Donovan, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Sometimes, young patients see primary care doctors who don’t have enough training in this area.
    — Steven Berkowitz, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The doctors in the survey were mostly primary care providers who did not specialize in allergies.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 27 July 2023
  • And companies like Walgreens are pushing them to work more with primary care doctors.
    — Tom Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The cost of managing a medical practice — whether in primary care or a specialty — has surged.
    — Paul Berggreen, STAT, 15 Feb. 2024
  • This gives Prime members an easy and much faster way of seeing a primary care doctor without waiting weeks or months, as can often be the case with the US healthcare system.
    — Chris Welch, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2023
  • All received primary care from the Program and specialty care at Mass General, one of the world’s great hospitals.
    — Tracy Kidder, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Given the need to overhaul primary care and social care, some experts argue the best thing the N.H.S. can do is simply run its hospitals better.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 16 July 2023
  • First was access: Some students missed well visits with their primary care physicians.
    — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 20 July 2023
  • Dan Henry, a primary care doctor in Salt Lake City, has devoted his life to treating migraines.
    — Sofia Jeremias, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Every senior adult should visit their primary care physician at least once a year for a wellness visit.
    — Raya Rockwood, Dallas News, 14 July 2023
  • Barnett is a primary care doctor and researcher at Harvard.
    — Christopher Rowland, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Chesney said even getting to see a primary care doctor can help with detecting the cancer early.
    — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 7 Sep. 2023

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