General practitioners are high-quality primary health care talents with general medical training, independent working ability, comprehensive clinical skills and noble medical ethics, providing convenient and cheap all-round quality services for individuals, families and communities. To carry out general medical service, if there is no dynamic general practitioner to do a solid foundation, the work will lack vitality and motivation. The service system based on pure specialized medical care will inevitably lead to the disorder of medical order, which any country's economy can't afford.

The Royal Society of General Practitioners defines a general practitioner as a doctor who provides humanized, primary and continuous medical services for individuals and families in a family, clinic or hospital. General practitioners are experts in primary medical care because of their long-term work at the grass-roots level and rich practical experience. They understand people's mentality, interpersonal communication and the ins and outs of diseases. General practitioners face not only the sick people, but also the general healthy people. They can use all the resources of the community, such as government, civil affairs, charity, enterprise groups, neighborhood committees and so on. , to solve the specific difficulties of patients. According to the needs of the disease, it can be appropriately transferred to a specialist or a large hospital for diagnosis and treatment, comprehensively coordinate the relationship between doctors and patients, and take full responsibility for patients.