Primary Adult Care
Board Certified Internal Medicine, Geriatric Physician & Clinical Research located in Sacramento, CA
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Primary Adult Care services offered in Sacramento, CA
Your first stop for medical care, Douglas Young, M.D., is where you should go for a routine checkup or primary adult care. The practice offers comprehensive primary and preventive care to reduce risk factors for chronic illness. Board-Certified Internal Medicine experts treat adults of all ages, but they have a particular focus and expertise for seniors 50 years and older. Contact the office in the Arden-Arcade neighborhood of Sacramento, California, by phone or online to schedule an appointment at your convenience.
What is primary adult care?
Primary adult care is based on caring for people rather than specific diseases, meaning that professionals working in general practice are generalists, managing a broad range of physical and psychological problems rather than specialists in a particular disease area.
They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on various health-related issues.
Primary adult care includes:
- Disease prevention
- Health promotion and maintenance
- Patient Education
- Counseling
- Diagnosis and treatment of acute illness
- Diagnosis and treatment of chronic illness
Services take place in various health care settings such as office, inpatient, critical care, long-term care, home care, schools, and telemedicine.
What are some examples of primary adult care?
Some examples of primary adult care include:
- Prescribing medications
- Routine physical exams
- Health screenings
- Treatment of minor injuries and illnesses
- Chronic care management
- Complex disease management
Douglas Young, M.D., specializes in primary care and internal medicine for adult patients.
What is the difference between internal medicine and family practice?
Differences between internal medicine and family practice result in unique skill sets and strengths in caring for patients. The general and subspecialty nature of training equips internists to develop expertise in diagnosing various diseases that commonly affect adults and managing complex medical situations where multiple conditions can affect a single individual.
Internal medicine
Internal medicine focuses only on adults. Required internal medicine training focuses on common general medical conditions and includes significant experience in subspecialties such as endocrinology, rheumatology, infectious diseases, and neurology.
Internal medicine training must take place in both outpatient and inpatient settings. Most training programs require hospital-based work with additional training in inpatient subspecialty services such as cardiology, hematology, oncology, intensive care medicine, and gastroenterology.
Training must also include experience in psychiatry, ophthalmology, office gynecology, dermatology, otorhinolaryngology, non-operative orthopedics, palliative medicine, sleep medicine, geriatric care, and rehabilitation medicine.
Family practice
Family practice is built around a social unit (the family) instead of a specific patient population like women, children, or geriatrics. Family physicians are trained with the intent to be able to deal with the entire spectrum of medical issues that the members of a family unit might encounter.
Douglas Young, M.D., kindly accepts new patients if you’re looking for a primary adult care provider. Please book an appointment by phone or online at your convenience.