How to Use family practice in a Sentence

family practice

noun
  • She plans to enter family practice when she graduates from med school.
  • Since then, she's been a great addition to their family practice in Corte Madera.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN, 12 Sep. 2020
  • That is the most fulfilling aspect of family practice.
    Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Cates is a family practice and sports medicine physician who started his career in pediatrics.
    Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2020
  • One company lets doctors in small family practices order up complex lab tests for their patients on their phone.
    The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • Shutting down any family practices could leave thousands of patients having routine chest pains or other problems without any place to go.
    Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Her husband, Dwight, manages the family practice in Springfield.
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 11 June 2024
  • Internal medicine, pediatrics and family practice also pay on the lower end and face doctor shortages.
    Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • According to Jones and online public records, Fadal is a family practice doctor.
    Caleb Downs, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Smith closed his brick-and-mortar family practice during the pandemic to focus on ketamine by telemedicine, where patient demand was higher.
    Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Long hours and low pay have transformed pediatric or family practices into unattractive options for many aspiring physicians.
    Reed Abelson and Julie Creswell, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Before your first day back in the office, Nealon recommends having your entire family practice their morning routine.
    Lisa Rabasca Roepe, Wired, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Covid-19 patients have overwhelmed my family practice in New Jersey.
    Alexander Salerno For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 24 Apr. 2020
  • As families practice social distancing as a strategy to battle the pandemic, kids home from school may be watching more television than usual.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Porter, one of the few African American physicians in the county, had moved to Emanuel 33 years before to start a family practice.
    Heather Vogell, ProPublica, 23 Nov. 2020
  • The higher Medicaid funding has helped pay for four new adult family practice clinics and a pediatric mental health clinic, Johns said.
    Phil Galewitz, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2022
  • As a family practice physician, Thomas, 63, has treated generations of families in the area.
    Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Mental-health care providers had the app remind the families to work on certain goals, such as setting a discussion topic for the week and having the family practice active-listening skills.
    Laura Landro, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
  • When the family practice doctor overseeing the case asked for a peer-to-peer review, the insurance company physician defending the denial was an ob-gyn specialist.
    Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Physicians in internal medicine, family practice and pediatrics are PCPs.
    WSJ, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The family practices hierarchical parenting; Daylover and her husband are the primary decision makers as far as their kids go.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 24 July 2024
  • Mason Park Medical Clinic is a family practice clinic serving the Katy area more than 23 years.
    Roy Kent, Houston Chronicle, 8 Dec. 2019
  • That hardly seems fair to Amanjit Singh, then 17, whose father was ordered to reopen his shuttered family practice clinic in Mumbai.
    Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • In his family practice, meanwhile, Fannin prescribed far less OxyContin and required any patients on opioids to undergo urine screens and pill counts.
    Jerry Mitchell and Laura Ungar, The Courier-Journal, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Fannin, who turns 70 in February, recently retired from family practice to devote more time to hospice work and addiction treatment.
    Jerry Mitchell and Laura Ungar, The Courier-Journal, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Federal agencies sent personal protective equipment to nursing homes and hospitals hit hard by the virus, with little left over for a family practice in rural Alabama.
    al, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Morris Brown, the family practice physician who owns the clinic, rotated through Black patients nearly every 20 minutes.
    Tribune News Service, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Nov. 2024
  • Gore Panter, who plans on going into family practice, is expected to graduate with her medical degree in 2025.
    Catherine Garcia, The Week, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Primary Health's 20 clinics in southwestern Idaho normally have an urgent care on one side and family practice doctors on the other.
    Keith Ridler, Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
  • Soon after, Alex issued statements announcing that was leaving the family practice and entering rehab for a longstanding opioid addiction.
    Rebecca Rosenberg, FOXNews.com, 30 Jan. 2023

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