Do you have a family doctor? How does she or he work?

I am a homeopath and my husband is an allopath. So you can easily understand that we have no need of a family doctor.

Even in countries like India(European colonies), people have their own family doctors. But this tradition of having family doctors is now almost not found. But every family is familiar with a particular doctor. They contact him in emergency situations for advice. My brother, himself is a doctor, so no need of other doctor.

We have pretty good insurance so we do not have to pay much out of pocket right now for helthcare, thankfully. I am sure there will come a day when we do have to though. We only go to the doctor when it is absolutely necessary. We like the doctor that we have now.

We already consider her as that cause every times someone in my family gets sick, we always go to her and it seems that she knows all of us already and she knows the history of our illnesses so its easier for her to diagnose us.

We have a family doctor, and this is the same doctor that had brought me out into this world many, many years ago. She is older now, of course, but, still when someone in the family gets sick, she is the first one we go to (she is a general practitioner) and when we need to see a specialist, she would recommend one for us. She has a clinic and that is where we see her. When somebody needs to go to the hospital, we normally go where she is affiliated so that we can request her to be the attending doctor.

yes we do have a family doctor. he is the one we go to right away when there is something wrong. he then refers us to specialists when there is something worse. his specialty is internal medicine, so when someone in the family gets something like cough, or pneumonia, of course it is about the lungs, so he refers us to anther doctor and this doctor is also close to our family. if he can take care of us like if it is only something mild then he prescribes us only medicines and complete bed rest and things to do and avoid. but if it is something worse then he also advices us to get admitted to the hospital. it is good to have a family doctor because he or she knows your family history about diseases you have etc. unlike if you don't have one, each doctor will ask you same questions like about family history, past medical history and stuffs like that. you take care too and be safe always

What I understand by family doctor is the doctor to whom the all the members of the family visit when they are sick. That does not mean you hire a doctor on yearly basis it is simply that you visit a particular doctor every time you are sick and pay him visit fee on visit to visit basis. There is no compulsion of any sort that you have to visit the same person but the advantage of having a fixed doctor is that he knows your medical history and that helps him in diagnosing your problems. In my case I have got a doctor to whom all the members of my family visit every time we are sick. If there is a need of some extra consultation of some other doctor he advises accordingly. My doctor is a cardiologist and well versed in general medicine and incidentally he is a good friend of mine.