Topic summary
Family physician
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Family medicine.
Italy
Family physician main tasks are to prescribe drugs, diagnostic tests and specialist examinations, arrange hospitalisation for emergency medicine, and to visit patients at home if they are unable to physically go to his ambulatory room (within the municipality of residence of the doctor's office). In addition, the family doctor issues various certificates with legal validity, such as a disease certificate to justify absences from the workplace and to be paid by the National Institute for Social Security.