Family practitioner

Family practitioner
 

Would this be better translated as "Médico de cabecera"?

Suena lo más lógico, aunque la estructura de la atención médica está cambiando tanto ...

Gracias, AleCcowaN, así es...

I agree about "médico de cabecera" when it is not a public service.
In Mexican governmental health institutions, they call the general practitioner "médico familiar" (not related, I know... just for the record). ;)

Vale, gracias. :)

Although in Tomisimo's dictionary the word practitioner means Practicante.

Am I right?

Yes, but it also refers also to a doctor.
(Random House) "1. a person engaged in the practice of a profession, occupation, etc.: a medical practitioner."
So it translate into Spanish as "médico" (per Oxford and also Cambridge Klett Bilingual dictionaries)

In BrE it would always be understood as a medical doctor who practices general medicine, i.e. the general practioner, the one you would visit first and who would then send you to a specialist if necessary.

Sometimes these titles indicate a level of training which doctors need to specify. In some countries, the 'general medicine' is the basic course required to be able to call yourself 'doctor', and a specialist needs a year or two more to call themselves 'specialist'. In Germany, where these distinctions are important, I've even seen "Specialist in General Medicine"

Interesting. Thank you, Perikles.

The general practitioner here is also a "médico general", but we usually say "médico de cabecera" when you or your family visit him/her regularly. :)

Tambien se dice, médico de familia.

Gracias. (Y galeno y matasanos...) ;) :lol: :lol:

...Y Bernardo estaría tentado de decir "señor dotor". :D

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