General practitioners (GPs), or family doctors, are one such part.
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There aren't any family doctors in the French countryside anymore.
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In China, we don't have family doctors and a referral system.
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However, simply having more family doctors (GPs) will not solve the issue.
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Few family doctors had heard of the disorder, let alone encountered a patient.
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Lyme disease made family doctors begin to suspect tick bites in patients with fevers.
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There is concern that family doctors' surgeries could be struck on Monday when they open.
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Researchers used data submitted to the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink by 73 family doctors.
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More family doctors will be needed to manage their routine needs and visit the housebound.
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In response, China is hoping to rely more on general practitioners, known as family doctors.
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" In its timely Declaration calling on family doctors of the world to act on planetary health, the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) urged doctors globally to "communicate to patients that their health ultimately depends on the environment, both in their immediate vicinity and globally.
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He lives in San Francisco where he works with family doctors as a health policy researcher.
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And he wants more rural family doctors to be trained in agricultural medicine, including behavioral health.
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Family doctors could turn into conspirators in an international drug cartel at the click of a button.
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Meanwhile, family doctors are still seeing the usual crush of wintertime cough and flu cases at clinics.
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Such a surge would usually place huge strain on general practitioners (GPs), as Britain's family doctors are known.
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Now 4.4m people have access to family doctors, up from 329,000 when Mr Paes took office in 2009.
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Good Doctor delivers healthcare services such as online family doctors and health mall services through its mobile platform.
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Scheduling a checkup is a breeze — Nebraska ranks fifth in the most pediatricians and family doctors per capita.
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And a different study of family doctors in England found that quality and patient satisfaction increased with competition.
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Although the NHS hopes to train and recruit new family doctors, the gap won't be plugged any time soon.
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But there would still be only 230 family doctors for every 240,22013 people (compared with 22009 today—see chart).
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A mental health issue After speaking to Khan's family, doctors believe his unusual behavior could be caused by depression.
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Family doctors and social workers joined Gestapo officers to identify "disabled" or "work-shy" individuals for incarceration or sterilization.
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Experts say negative attitudes may be due to controversies over suspected side-effects and hesitancy among some family doctors.
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Several families living in Lincoln homes on Camp Pendleton shared letters from family doctors urging housing officials to investigate.
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In most of the NHS, patients are sent to specialist services by GPs, or family doctors, who act as gatekeepers.
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It is simply not fair that a segment of wealthy people pay lower taxes than teachers, policemen, or family doctors.
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Beijing has been trying to fix the problem, setting targets to increase the number of family doctors across the country.
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LONDON — A new program in Wales will allow family doctors to offer patients an unusual prescription for better health: bicycles.
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Ro doesn't currently offer in-person medical services, meaning that it won't be replacing patients' family doctors any time soon.
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Even before the creation of the NHS in 1948, family doctors played an outsized role in providing health care in England.
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A few days later, after consulting with the family, doctors removed Ms. Spoor from the oxygenation machine — her life support, essentially.
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Women are on the front lines in the fight against the coronavirus, working in hazardous conditions, and yet PayScale's gender pay gap research shows that women family doctors make 94 cents for every $1 male family doctors earn and female nurses make less than male nurses, 98 cents for every $1, when data are controlled for all compensable factors.
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Since last year, all general practitioners (GPs, or family doctors) have been obliged to allow patients to view their medical records online.
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On average, the framework made GPs some of the highest-paid family doctors in the world when it was introduced in 2004.
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In a survey conducted in 2014, 16-43% of French family doctors said they never or only sometimes recommended some specific vaccines.
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Family doctors, as most of us know, tend to prefer an eight-minute visit — blood pressure, vitals, and maybe a few questions.
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They were examined by their respective family doctors who, according to medical records Knull provided, suspected the couple had been exposed to organophosphates.
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Don't change behavior just yet The Royal College of General Practitioners, a network of more than 52,000 family doctors in the UK, urged caution.
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Because the vaccine is so effective, oncologists are working on a rebranding effort to encourage pediatricians and family doctors to more forcefully endorse immunization.
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In a survey conducted in 2014, 16-43% of French family doctors said they never or only sometimes recommended some of the standard vaccines.
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A 2013 study in Colorado (PDF), for instance, found more than 80 percent of family doctors thought physicians needed medical training before recommending marijuana.
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There's some overlap among them, she said, but redundancy is key to ensuring family, doctors and others are aware of and respect your wishes.
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Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners which represents family doctors, described the attack as "scandalous and extremely worrying".
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According to medical records included in the lawsuit their family doctors suspected the couple had been exposed to organophosphates, chemicals often found in pesticides.
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A series of negotiations involving the separate groups that represent family doctors and specialists and several governments have led to a series of raises.
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Waiting times are rising, access to some services is being restricted and access to family doctors, mental health and community services are under huge pressure.
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Waiting times are rising, access to some services is being restricted, and access to family doctors, mental health, and community services are under huge pressure.
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The number of family doctors per 1,000 people is nearly twice as high on the wealthy coast as it is in western and central China.
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But looking more broadly, a greater number of opioid prescriptions were written by general practitioners, such as family doctors, who see far more patients overall.
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The former president died in his home in a gated community in Houston, surrounded by several friends, members of his family, doctors and a minister.
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At his trial, defense lawyers presented medical experts and family doctors who said the seven patients he was accused of killing had all died naturally.
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In France, where half of all family doctors are now over 55, officials are bracing for a big wave of retirements over the next decade.
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This could mean extended access to millions of women who can't get to licensed gynecologists or family doctors for contraception, or pay for their services.
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That promise would be quoted dozens of times over, in stories about the marketplace plans' narrow networks that put beloved family doctors out of reach.
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Iranians, for instance, make up a disproportionate number of family doctors in the US, since many American medical students prefer to specialize in higher-paying fields.
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And even with the government pushing to hit 24,285.5 GPs by 73 that still means there would only be 27 family doctors for every 230,2100 people.
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Students start placements in the practices of GPs (family doctors) in their first year, the idea being to inoculate them against medical snobbery about such work.
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Public health, hospitals, general practitioners (or GPs, the family doctors who provide basic care outside hospitals) and mental-health services all have separate funding and incentives.
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The American Association of Family Physicians, representing 28503,22019 family doctors and medical students, sharply criticized the VA proposal that would allow nurse practitioners to work independently.
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She also had blurry vision, nausea and diarrhea, she told CNN, and family doctors determined the couple had been exposed to organophosphates, a class of insecticides.
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A pay-for-performance program in the UK paid an extra $40,000 per year on average to family doctors, but it still failed to improve care.
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Though the CDC has been experimenting with giving people third doses of the MMR vaccine during outbreaks, that's experimental and not something family doctors are routinely recommending.
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My family, doctors, and society at large were constantly telling me that I was too heavy, that I needed to exercise more, that I should be smaller.
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Ireland lifted tight restrictions on abortion from January 1, but fewer than 200 family doctors – about 5 percent of the total – have signed up to take part.
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Babylon's app is allowing users in London to book NHS appointments with family doctors in seconds, it said, and have a video consultation typically within two hours.
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Our experience with askmyGP is that the key to any online system is enabling family doctors to triage patient requests before offering time-consuming face-to-face appointments.
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However, Meigs said that he and other family doctors have come to depend on the task force's recommendations, which are known for sticking closely to the available evidence.
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Sixty percent of the stimulant drugs are prescribed by non-psychiatrists — by pediatricians, GPs, and family doctors — and they usually only have a few minutes with each patient.
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Other services are also squeezed: the ratio of GPs (family doctors) to elderly people has fallen and the number of district nurses declined by 28% in 2009-14.
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Patients across Canada need better access to family doctors, and they need to know—without a doubt—when it's time to seek one out, and forego the naturopath.
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In some parts of the country family doctors are leaving their cottage practices to join chains of larger surgeries that share back-office functions such as call centres.
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Family doctors, or GPs, in parts of the UK have started prescribing social activities such as book clubs for patients to meet their medical and non-medical needs.
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Whereas Labour may be keen to cut back on private firms carrying out planned operations, it would not want to nationalise, say, family doctors' practices, which are mostly private partnerships.
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With their knowledge of their patients' histories, family doctors can help patients create advance care plans that document their wishes before illness or accident prevents them from speaking for themselves.
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With one in five family doctors receiving targeted opioid marketing (visits by sales reps, free meals, speaking payments) between 2013 and 2015, this could have had a serious impact on overprescribing.
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The best of them focus on désenclavement, or breaking the sense of isolation, by improving public services such as bus links, family doctors and high-speed broadband coverage in such areas.
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Family doctors say they know their patients better and can check on their overall health during a visit rather than dealing with just the one issue that brought that person in.
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Junior doctors have not yet qualified to become consultants or family doctors, but may have graduated more than 000 years ago and are generally between the ages of about 229 and 210.
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Junior doctors have not yet qualified to become consultants or family doctors, but may have graduated more than 103 years ago and are generally between the ages of about 25 and 40.
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Related: You're Home to Trillions of Microbes That Affect Everything From Digestion to Depression Most people fighting for the recognition of chronic Lyme are family doctors, not researchers or academics, Shor said.
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Family doctors, known as general practitioners (GPs), act as the first port of call for patients; friendly gatekeepers to the rest of the service who refer people to specialists only if needed.
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The newly formed group, dubbed the Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health, is comprised of family doctors, pediatricians, obstetricians, allergists, geriatricians, and internists that make up 11 of the nation's leading medical societies.
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Studies have shown that improving access to high-quality family doctors can help drive down health care costs and improve patient's health outcomes, but not everyone can afford it or reliably access it.
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A survey by MedeConnect, a market-research firm, in England and Wales in 2014 found that six in ten family doctors wanted the BMA to take a neutral stance on doctor-assisted dying.
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The National Health Service Trust asked the High Court of Justice to declare that approval from the Court of Protection was not necessary for a decision that the family doctors had agreed on.
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In addition to his death, CNN identified five people who died in 2018 from causes that friends, family, doctors or funeral home directors consider to be related to Hurricane Maria and its aftermath.
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"My family, doctors, and society at large were constantly telling me that I was too heavy, that I needed to exercise more, that I should be smaller," she writes in an essay for Refinery29.
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Medical students and specialist doctors in several hospitals on Tuesday joined a strike by family doctors that has already been weakening health care in Algiers and other major cities for the last four months.
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While Pereira says that it's worth doctors exploring the possibility that a patient's new-onset asthma could be linked to their contraception, she notes that family doctors may not be aware of this connection.
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Ping An Healthcare, in which Ping An Insurance will hold 39.27 percent on completion of the global offering, delivers on-demand healthcare through its mobile platform, including online family doctors, healthcare and health mall services.
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"My guess is that internists and family doctors who are caring for adults are, after the publication of this study, going to think more about lead as a risk factor for heart disease," Landrigan said.
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Surveying members of the Family Planning Fellowship network, comprising of physicians who specialize in the provision of contraception in the United States, he discovered a lot of interest among Ob-Gyns and family doctors to provide vasectomy.
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At the same time, Beijing has been promising better access to healthcare and improved grass-roots care - despite a lack of family doctors - which has brought technology into the spotlight as a way of maximizing stretched resources.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women seeking abortions in Ireland may not get comprehensive care as health services struggle to meet demand for the fast-tracked launch of the service, a national group representing family doctors said on Thursday.
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The British company fed its chatbot questions from the official exam set by the the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) in the U.K. The RCGP is a membership body for family doctors in the U.K. and overseas.
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Chen Xi, an assistant professor of health policy and economics at the Yale School of Public Health, said it was more important to have a working system of family doctors who can act as gatekeepers for the hospitals.
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Because more than 220006 percent of nurse practitioners, as they are known, are certified in primary care they can provide a safe and cost effective solution to a looming shortage of family doctors, especially in rural and poor areas.
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Since the early 1990s the parts of the NHS that pay for services (typically GPs, or family doctors) have been separated from those that provide them (hospitals, for example), in the hope that an "internal market" will drive up standards.
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In response, Britain's National Health Service has been expanding the use of "social prescribing" whereby family doctors refer patients to organisations that provide housing, welfare and debt advice, or social connections through activities such as dance classes or gardening groups.
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Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University's medical school in Nashville, Tennessee, who advises the federal panel that sets U.S. vaccine policy, said the Kennedy news reinforces the concerns of public health officials, pediatricians and family doctors.
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Of course, having a child isn't just about the money (though that factors heavily into it) — WalletHub's researchers found that D.C. had the most pediatricians and family doctors per capita, and tied with Vermont for the most midwives and OB-GYNS per capita.
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Amy Hagstrom Miller, the founder and CEO of Whole Woman's Health, pointed out that, in Virginia, any provider—including family doctors and nurse practitioners—who does more than five abortions per month has to have their facility licensed as an abortion clinic.
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Some 36 percent of family doctors surveyed in Czech Republic and 25 percent in Slovakia do not agree that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is safe, and 29 percent and 19 percent respectively do not believe it is important, the survey showed.
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Yet the CDC reported that a doctor's suggestion to get an HPV vaccine was strongly associated with a teen getting immunized, which is why oncologists are working on a rebranding effort for the vaccine to encourage pediatricians and family doctors to more forcefully recommend the immunization.
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It is a mish-mash that involves nearly 7,500 general practices (clinics of GPs, or family doctors, which are independent contractors); 233 "trusts", as hospitals and other direct providers of care are known; and some 2600 companies and charities that provide care on behalf of the NHS.
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In the meantime, I suggest the creation of a coalition comprised of family doctors (whom we all entrust with our physical well-being) and religious leaders (who by virtue of their profession are concerned about the poor) to provide the public with the facts about GMOs.
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"But we need to invest in non-medication related treatment for chronic pain, but right now, it's just not available," said Ahamad, who believes a comprehensive response, including training family doctors to diagnose and treat addiction in an evidence-based way and support for harm reduction programs, is necessary.
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Tip "Giving a mask to a health care provider on the front line has more potential for a positive impact than wearing it around the grocery store," says Conrad Amenta, director of policy and strategic initiatives at the California Academy of Family Physicians, which represents some 11,000 family doctors.
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Women in Australia face the some of the same problems as women in the US: Anti-abortion laws, coupled with the fact that many family doctors decline to perform abortions or prescribe the abortion pill, leave women in geographic areas without abortion clinics with very little options when they experience an unwanted pregnancy.
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Based on the WalletHub's findings, here are the top 10 states to raise a child: Vermont scores high on all fronts in the WalletHub data, boasting a low infant mortality rate, high numbers of pediatricians and family doctors per capita, and tying with the District of Columbia for most midwives and OB-GYNs per capita.
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In the case of these new recommendations, primary care doctors include not just family doctors but also gynecologists, who provide many women with primary care, and obstetricians when women are pregnant and in the months following their delivery, said Dr. Michael P. Pignone, professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and one of the authors of the recommendations, which were published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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