A primary care physician is BEST described as a medical professional who __________.

A primary care physician provides general, ongoing care and is usually the first medical professional a patient contacts for a health concern. Highly specialized knowledge describes a specialist, while a primary care physician does not supervise every step of recovery or necessarily take only select types of insurance. Therefore, the best answer is “is often the first point of contact for patients.”

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