Primary care is the first course of care once a patient decides to seek help from a hospital, clinic or other health care facility. Primary Care Providers, or PCP's can include pediatricians, family physicians and OB/GYN's.
PRIMARY CARE: "Once Jonathon decided to have someone look at his sprained wrist, he receive primary care at the hospital."
Cite this page: Nugent, Pam M.S., "PRIMARY CARE," in PsychologyDictionary.org, April 28, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/primary-care/ (accessed October 16, 2018).
