primary care physician

1. 1.

   the physician who provides primary care

   “the primary care physician acts as a gatekeeper to the medical system”

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Questions about primary care physician

What does primary care physician mean?

primary care physician means "the physician who provides primary care".

Is primary care physician a common word?

primary care physician is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.