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Coming here from discussion with RJ1001 regarding the plantar wart article. As far as I'm aware, 'primary care physician' isn't commonly used in the UK, and the abbreviation PCP would not be understood in this meaning. I wonder if it's worth clarifying the geographical spread of this usage in the article? I'm also confused from a UK perspective as to whether or not it's a synonym for what we'd call a 'general practitioner' (usually GP) or just a 'doctor'. Espresso Addict 23:46, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
I normally avoid reverting so many edits, but the issue of defining "PCP" is not being made any clearer by recent edits.
Defining the term PCP doesn't belong in the header anyway. So I moved it to the "Defining primary care physicians" section. Ryanjo (talk) 02:52, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
The term does need to be defined because the acronym is used for two different types of provider and means two different things. This needs to be clarified in this article. You stated that NPs and PAs hold medical degrees, this is not correct. They hold nursing degrees and physicians assistants degrees respectively. A basic medical degree is either a MD, US-DO, or MBBS degree, there is nothing else that is classifed as a medical degree. Jwri7474 (talk) 04:03, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
NPs and PAs are "allied health" providers, they do not "practice medicine". Its pretty black and white. NPs and PAs have degrees in allied health fields, they do not hold medical degrees. Every US state board of medicine has in writing what is considered "the practice of medicine". They quite clearly state that the only people who are licensed to "practice medicine" are those who hold basic qualifications in medicine (MD, MBBS, DO) are the ONLY degrees in medicine that allow for this. You cannot define the practice of a nurse, a nurse practitioner, or a Physician assistant as practicing medicine or holding medical degrees as this would be against the law. Jwri7474 (talk) 04:19, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
and avoids expressing an unverifiable opinion.The term "PCP" is most commonly used in the United States, where it may either be used to refer to a primary care physician, with a medical degree, or a primary care provider, who may be either a nurse practitioner or physician assistant, or an alternative medicine practitioner with no formal medical training.
I don't have any problem with this issue. Jwri7474 (talk) 04:19, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
The current table of salaries is not from the best available source. The citation is (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FBW/is_6_3/ai_87799043/). The data is from 2001. Also it includes "Base salary only; bonuses excluded." I am replacing with official data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos074.htm#earnings). 69.249.232.27 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC).
I have modified the recent edit by Sarahcrawford14 to reflect the fact that, although they have some common characteristics, chiropractic physicians are not usually defined as PCPs (see article references), and also to be consistent with the scope of practice section within the existing Wikipedia article, Chiropractic. Ryanjo (talk) 20:26, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
-Someone just listed them as one again, which I have removed. Tempreroor (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:57, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
Is "primary medical doctor" a term which should be mentioned in this article as an alternative name? I ask because there was an entry in PMD (disambiguation) pointing this way. Neither "PMD" nor "Primary medical doctor" appears in this article. There's an unlinked (and of course unsourced) entry in List_of_medical_abbreviations:_P. Googling seems to show a few uses of the term, but most occurrences are in dictionaries of abbreviations (and could be spawned from this encyclopedia!). Any thoughts? PamD 16:21, 7 May 2016 (UTC)