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The Consultant Family Physician

Loren H. Amundson and H. Bruce Vogt
The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice January 1989, 2 (1) 34-36; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2.1.34
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From the Department of Family Medicine, University of South Dakota School of Medicine, and the Sioux Falls Family Practice Residency Program, Sioux Falls, SD. Address reprint requests to L.H. Amundson, M.D., University of South Dakota School of Medicine, 800 E. 21st Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57101
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From the Department of Family Medicine, University of South Dakota School of Medicine, and the Sioux Falls Family Practice Residency Program, Sioux Falls, SD. Address reprint requests to L.H. Amundson, M.D., University of South Dakota School of Medicine, 800 E. 21st Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57101
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Family physicians frequently consult and refer to other specialists, both generalist and subspecialist. Less commonly has the family physician been used as a consultant. A randomized questionnaire survey of family physicians in five midwestern states was used to consider the frequency and reasons for other specialists collaborating with the family physician as a consultant. Fifty percent of the respondents consult and refer to as well as receive consultations/referrals from other family physicians. Thirty-five percent of the respondents receive consultations and referrals from other generalist specialists, and 28 percent receive theirs from subspecialists. Most often these occur because the patient has no family physician, but family physicians are also used for their procedural skills and coordination of patient evaluation and management, including preoperative evaluation of patients. This study confirms that the consultant family physician is an important part of the health care team. (J Am Bd Fam Pract 1989; 2:34-6.)

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