Family Medicine is a medical specialty within primary care that focuses on treating the entire family – whether its members are children, adolescents or adults. It also involves managing chronic diseases and acute illnesses across all stages of life. The scope of family medicine includes the diagnosis and treatment of any patient’s medical problem, regardless of age or gender. The specialist providing this care is a Family Physician.
What Do Family Medicine Specialists Do?
Family Medicine is a branch of medicine that deals with prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illnesses in individuals and their families throughout their entire life. They will create a unique treatment plan to combat your family’s different health conditions, from coronary illness, stroke and hypertension, to diabetes and malignant growth. Our medical services, which family physicians specialise in, include:
- A wide range of preventive care options
- Psychiatric services
- Well-child exams
- Minor illnesses
- Routine health exams
- Healthy lifestyle options and counselling
- Medical care and treatment of acute diseases
- Coordination of care or referral with other medical experts
- Management of all types of chronic diseases and patients with multidisciplinary illnesses
Our Family Medicine team is committed to providing primary care. They are all well-trained and able to treat a wide range of diseases, due their expertise in various fields of medicine.
The goal of the team is to give you and your family excellent health care at all times.
Our Team
Dr Sabah Yusuf
Family Medicine Specialist
- Dr Sabah Yusuf is a Canadian board-certified Family Physician. Sabah spent her childhood in several countries before settling in Dubai, including Canada, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Greece. After completing her high school in Toronto, she went on to pursue an undergraduate degree in Biology and Statistics from the University of Toronto and attended at McMaster University Medical School.