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Patient Profile: A Comprehensive Study Of The Reasons For Visit As Well As The Sex And Age Distributions Of Patients Seen In A Kankakee General Practicioner's Office Between The Months Of May And July, Jennifer A. Kershaw
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The goal of this project was to examine the patients that a general practitioner (GP) sees in a given time period and to chart their characteristics in order to better understand the mosaic of patients seen in such a practice. Comprising this profile are answers to the following questions: Are females or males seen more frequently in the GP’s office? What is the distribution of ages seen most frequently? What are the most common presenting symptoms? Data was collected via survey from the office of Dr. Rodney Alford in Kankakee, IL between May 10, 2010 and July 10th, 2010. When …