I need a new primary care physician (mine is leaving to go into "international medicine"). Leopard-spotted roses are more plentiful than PCPs, apparently. My search has been abetted by suggestions from friends who "love" their doctors (needless to say, all those physicians' practices are closed), the high and mighty who control hospital systems and kindly have their assistants searching on my behalf, and friends who are MDs, who have excellent opinions about what I should do (thanks, K, for the terrific advice last night).
In the course of this search, I've read a lot of doctors' bios, which means I've been to a lot of medical provider websites. More than once I've run into the description of doctors with "preventative" medicine as their specialty.
No. It's preventive. My mother, the English teacher, drilled this into me. But don't take it from me. Here's what Webster's says:
Preventative
Pre*vent"a*tive\, n. That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.Cite This Source"
