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The Family Medicine Specialist Surgical Clinic - a new project to benefit the patient, hospital specialist, family physicians and the private sector in the community
Hong Kong Practitioner, 05/18/09

Chan K-w et al. - The FMSC clinic can benefit patients by providing a safety net for the early diagnosis of malignant and pre-malignant disease. It can also relieve the hospital specialists? workload, enhance family physician?s role in performing surgical endoscopy and treatment procedures as well as providing a platform in promoting public/private partnership.

Family Medicine Specialist Clinic can shorten the waiting time for the surgical Specialist Outpatient Department, thus relieving the heavy workload of hospital specialists.
Family Medicine Specialist Clinic can act as a safety net for the early diagnosis of pre-malignant and malignant surgical diseases.
With proper training and supervision, family physicians can perform investigations and procedures like endoscopy and hemorrhoid rubber band ligation.
The family physician is a good mediator for the public-private interface as well as primary-secondary care interface.