New Post (82) : Bring back my family physician
We have been aping the West for some time and …seeing the specialist right away for all ills.
We need to go back to the family physician.
The focus must revert to dispensing comprehensive primary and polyclinic-style preventive and curative wellness services in residential clusters.
The clinic must provide “full” diagnostic tests and have all the basic essentials--- physician, paediatrician, obstetrician / gynaecologist, dermatologist and dentist.
Have clinics that would serve as referrers and be linked to the nearby hospital/s.
By all means…to expand coverage, look at FRANCHISING (or other models) …subsequently.
Bring healthcare back within easy reach, “to the doorstep”.
Get rid of all those “Beauty-SALON” “boutique “ format clinics.
The classical hospital-linked format is time tested. It works best.
Recommended that we ***Stop seeing the “specialist”… for any and every illness.
Charlie Brown
