Family Practice

What is Family Practice?
Family practice is the medical specialty which provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual as well as the family; adults and children. The family practice physician tends to emphasizes disease prevention and health promotion along treatment of illness.

At the core of family practice is the patient-physician relationship with the patient viewed in the context of the family; family physicians value and nurture these relationships within the context of a patients overall health. The family physician serves, many times, as first contact for patients; as the initial provider, the family physician is in a position to form a bond with the patient. The family physician refers the patient when indicated to specialists while preserving continuity of care.

Family Practice at Affinity
Affinity Health Group has three family practitioners on staff; each physician has special areas of interest, but all three treat adults and children

Family Medicine Physicians
James L. Graham, M.D.
Denise A. Crawley, M.D.
John J. Desmond, M.D.

Resources
www.familydoctor.org
www.aafp.org
www.medlineplus.org