GP

Francisco Valles (Divino Valles) personal physician of Felipe II.

The term family doctor refers to a type of medical practice, primary care, which is installed in both rural and urban areas. It is a health professional who practices in a health center or in a office; being the doctor closest to a certain population and, on many occasions, the only physician available to its inhabitants.

According to WONCA, the general/family doctor is the "physician who provides individuals and families with personal, primary, continuous and comprehensive health care".

Other denominations

• Family doctor
• Family and community doctor
• Primary Care Doctor
• Camera doctor
• People ' s doctor
• General doctor
• Personal physician
• Primary
• Rural physician
• Doctor holder
• Doctor General Integral

Official nomination

• In Spain: Family doctor

• In Argentina: Specialist in General Medicine and/or Family

Values and mission

Edward Jenner English rural doctor discovering the vaccine against smallpox or antivarian.

Robert Koch, German rural doctor, discovered the sludge of tuberculosis.

Health care seeks to prolong life, prevent suffering and help people die with dignity.

General values of clinical care

1. Dignity in treatment with the patient and his family
2. The courtesy and empathy of the clinical interview
3. Scientific, technical and human quality
4. The commitment to follow up pain and suffering
5. Maintenance and improvement of professional skills, knowledge and attitudes
6. Appropriate use of resources.

This achieves effective clinical care that facilitates a health policy for the provision of services according to the needs of patients and populations.

Specific Values of the Primary Care Physician

1. Reasonable control of clinical uncertainty
2. The prudent control of the times of attention
3. The establishment of a long-term personal relationship with the patient, his family and his community (lengthy)
4. The flexible organization necessary to ensure effective accessibility to the necessary care
5. Polyvalence in the provision of care
6. The rejection of tyranny of diagnosis.

This achieves the provision of care as close to the patient as possible, and establishes an adequate escalation in the response to health problems.

Mission of the GP

• Help the patient avoid diseases, cure them (if any) and cope with them, and die with dignity.
• Contribute to the efficiency of the health system (getting spending to focus on what has more "social reliability", with equity as a central value).

Functions

Julian Tudor Hart, an English rural doctor who spoke about the Inverse Care Act.

A medical professional who is in charge of a certain number of people (assigned population), in a certain health center, whose functions are care (or clinics), teaching, research, and administrative (or managers); and that directs its activity to three aspects:

1. Promoting healthy lifestyles
2. Timely identification of risks and health damage
3. The timely and appropriate resolution of the most frequent health problems of these people.

Features

The family doctor is the one who knows the patient thoroughly, his life expectancy, his personal, family and social situation, his health problems from different devices and systems and his global history, and for this reason he is qualified to decide together with the patient himself the treatment to be followed and the objectives to be achieved.

Ensuring quality health care means that patients and doctors know, respect and help each other to collaborate in the best way. In this way, patients will be able to receive the best care and doctors will be able to develop their vocation and function optimally.

Medical specialists should act as consultants. In other words, their care is episodic as a rule and they must hand over the follow-up of the patient to the family doctor.

Eminent GPs

Juan José Rodríguez Sendín, former president of the Spanish School Medical Organization.

• Francisco Vallés (Divino Vallés) (1524 - 1592)
• Edward Jenner (1749 - 1823)
• Robert Koch (1843 - 1910)
• Filiberto Villalobos (1879 - 1955)
• Esteban Laureano Maradona Villalba (1895 - 1995)
• Julian Tudor Hart (1927 - 2018)
• Hugo Dibarboure Icasuriaga (1929 - 2015)
• Juan José Rodríguez Sendín (1953 -)

World Family Doctor Day

In 2010 WONCA established May 19 as "World Family Doctor Day" (World Family Doctor Day), an initiative to commemorate the professional practice of Primary Health Care.

In Argentina, since 2001, the 4th of July is celebrated as "National Day of the Rural Doctor", commemorating the birth of Dr. Esteban Laureano Maradona (1895 – 1995) rural doctor, naturalist, writer and Argentine philanthropist, who spent fifty years practicing medicine in Estanislao del Campo.

The family doctor in art

Literature

• Balzac Honorate. The rural doctor (Le Médecin de campagne). 1833
• Pio Baroja. Shadow lives. 1900
• Felipe Trigo. The rural doctor. 1912.
• Franz Kafka. A rural doctor. 1919.
• Ernesto Serigós. The "new doctor" in the village. 1964. ISBN 987-1121261
• José Ilic Toro. Memories of a rural doctor. Thirty years in Villa Alegre. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Andrés Bello; 1986. ISBN 956-1309962
• Joaquin Carrillo Espinosa. History of a rural doctor (3 volumes). Murcia: Diego Marín Librero Editor; 1994. ISBN 978-84-605-4167-7
• José María Sanz Sanz. Autobiography - anecdote of a rural doctor (a figure that disappears). Alicante: Sanz Sanz, José María; 1997. ISBN 978-84-605-6999-2
• Antoni Coll Gilabert. Memories of a rural doctor. Madrid: International University Editions; 1997. ISBN 978-84-87155-94-9
• Chumy Chumez. Letters from a hypochondriac to your head doctor. Editorial Edaf, 2000. ISBN 978-8441408111
• Guillermo Franco Salazar. Prisoner of memories: Memories of a Cuban Doctor. Ed. Rebirth; 2002. ISBN 84-84720705
• René Favaloro. Memories of a rural doctor. Río Cuarto: Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto; 2005. ISBN 978-9506653545
• Marino Gómez-Santos. Baroja, a rural doctor and other offices. Madrid: IMC; 2006. ISBN 84-690-0884-6
• Abdala Farah. The walks of a rural doctor. Buenos Aires: Editorial Dunken; 2007. ISBN 978-9870220923
• Manuel Rodríguez Troncoso. A rural doctor in the 20th century (in the mountains of León). Go Indo Editions; 2009. ISBN 978-8476806364
• Antonio Rincón Muñiz. Have the following: reflections and anecdote of a rural doctor. Sociedad Sevillana De Doctors Escritores Nicolás Monardes; 2010. ISBN 978-8487497346
• Ernesto Feria Jaldón. Remedical. Life and thought of a rural doctor. Huelva: Publications Service of the University of Huelva; 2011. ISBN 978-84-15147-40-4
• René Favaloro. Memories of a rural doctor (2a ed). Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana; 2011. ISBN 978-9875666559

Painting

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  Visit of the doctor (Polsvoelende dokter bij zieke vrouw). Jan Havicksz Steen, 1658-1662.

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  The doctor and his patient (De zieke vrouw). Jan Havicksz Steen, 17th century.

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  The rural doctor (From Country Doctor). David Teniers the young, seventeenth century.

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  The head doctor (Der Arzt am Krankenbett). Egbert van Heemskerck II the young, eighteenth century.

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  Visit of the doctor (Besuch eines Arztes). Egbert van Heemskerck II the young, eighteenth century.

Sculpture

Homenaje al médico rural (Potes 05/07/1986).

• Ramon Ruiz Lloreda. Homage to the rural doctor. Potes. 05/07/1986.
• Monument to the head doctor. Padrón. 15/04/2007.

Cinema

• John Ford. Dr. Bull. USA 1933.
• Mario Soffici. The old doctor. Argentina. 1939.
• Miguel M. Delgado. Mr. Doctor. Mexico. 1965.
• Mariano Ozores. Madam Doctor. Spain. 1974.
• Michel Deville. The confessions of Dr. Sachs (Sachs Maladie). France. 1999.
• Leandro Ipiña. The rural doctor. Argentina. 2001 (cortometraje).

Television

• Family doctor. Spain 1995.
• Dr. Quinn. USA 1998.
• Everwood. USA. U.S. 2002.
• Dr. Mateo. Spain. 2009.