What Does a General Practitioner Do?
Looking at activity in primary care
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- When a patient walks into their general practice to get help with a medical problem, the first thing a GP will normally do is take a/an
- After this, the GP will normally do a physical ________ of the patient to learn more about their problem.
- Sometimes, this is enough information to reach a/an
- If it's not, the GP may want to organise more tests for the patient to go through. If the GP wants to send the patient to another service, this is called the GP making a/an
- Which of these tests / treatments cannot normally be done in primary care?
- Approximately what proportion of correct diagnoses are made based on the patient history alone?
- Which of these is an example of a 'closed' question?
- When taking a patient history, the acronym SOCRATES can be used. What does the first S stand for?
- If a doctor asks about the type of pain a patient was having, what stage would they be exploring in the SOCRATES framework?
- If a doctor was to ask a patient, whether the pain felt better or worse at night, what stage of the the SOCRATES framework would they be exploring?
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