Internal Medicine & Patient Care

Primary care is the routine healthcare given by a health care server. Typically this provider acts as the first contact and leading point of advancing care for patients within a healthcare system and organizes other specialist care that the patient may need. Patients generally receive primary care from a specialist such as a primary care physician, an adult-gerontology nurse practitioner, a Pediatric nurse practitioner, and a family nurse practitioner or a physician assistant. Depending on the nature of the health condition, patients may then be referred for secondary or tertiary care.