What do family docs do?

Family Medicine physicians practice primary care medicine.  We are the doctors patients see first with complaints or concerns.  We are all trained in general internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, basic surgery, emergency medicine, internal medicine, subspecialties, basic orthopedics, obstetrics, and gynecology.
 
All Family Medicine physicians focus on prevention.  We all treat common chronic diseases such as diabetes.  As the point of initial evaluation, family doctors do a lot of emergency or urgent care.  We are counselors for patients and coordinate care between specialists.  It makes for a varied daily schedule that may start with hospital rounds and progress to acute visits, physicals, and follow-up visits for chronic problems.  In short, family docs provide cradle to grave comprehensive care.