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family practice






family practice   
noun

Definition of family practice

: a medical practice or specialty which provides continuing general medical care for the individual and family

— called also family medicine




Recent Examples on the Web


//Bill was in family practice before working as an ER physician for 30 years, and later continued practicing urgent care medicine until retiring in 2017.
— orlandosentinel.com, "Deaths in Central Florida: 8/31," 31 Aug. 2019
//One company lets doctors in small family practices order up complex lab tests for their patients on their phone.
— The Economist, "China’s Silicon Valley is transforming China, but not yet the world," 11 July 2019
//Aquilina took her first job assisting then Michigan state senator John F. Kelly and later started her own family practice, Aquilina Law Firm.
— Jason Schmidt, Glamour, "Judge Rosemarie Aquilina Isn’t Done Listening Yet," 30 Oct. 2018
//Her mother is a licensed clinical social worker for Silva and Associates, a private family practice in Henderson.
— New York Times, "Ana Silva, Phillip Hsu," 1 July 2018
//Michael Alston Smith, whose family practice in Mount Holly, North Carolina, is now closed, has enrolled in truck driving school to pay his bills, court documents show.
— Joe Marusak, charlotteobserver, "Doctor gave patients drugs for sex. Now he's in trucking school to pay the bills.," 1 June 2018
//Bishop Curry was invited to honor Markle’s American heritage, since the Episcopal Church is the American branch of Anglicism, the religion the royal family practices.
— Lyndsey Matthews, Harper's BAZAAR, "Bishop Michael Curry Quoted Martin Luther King Jr. in Royal Wedding Sermon," 19 May 2018
//Among them: Glen Marin, a family practice doctor from New York City.
— Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "More than 200 doctors stay on Medicare rolls despite disciplinary actions," 17 May 2018
//The incidents were reported in February when Lowndes County deputies responded to a call at Patterson's family practice, reports say.
— Cliff Pinckard, cleveland.com, "Georgia doctor threatens to slit employees' throats: reports," 30 Apr. 2018


First Known Use of family practice

1838, in the meaning defined above



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