General

medicine
Ariangis Mariel Berroa #5
6toA
General medicine is the first level of
medical care and is essential for the
prevention, detection, treatment and
monitoring of stabilized chronic
diseases, taking responsibility of the
patient as a whole, to decide their
referral to specialists when any
pathology decompensation.
What is a general
practitioner
He is the specialist in Comprehensive General
Medicine. He is part of an interdisciplinary team
that tends to treat the individual in a
comprehensive and personalized way, taking into
account their social and health environment, being
trained to understand other social and health
realities where they must work in the future.
• This specialist works within the community
assuming the task of promoting and protecting
health and its right to it, preventing endemic
and prevalent diseases, diagnosing and treating
individuals from that community who become
ill, in a continuous and comprehensive manner,
and organize and reference their passage
through the health system in the event that
some type of greater technical complexity is
necessary.
GRACIAS