A family doctor is a doctor who does not specialize in any particular area of medicine, but who has a medical practice in which he or she treats all types of illness.
[British]
Only your family doctor can refer you to a surgeon.
family doctor in British English
noun
general practitioner
family doctor in American English
a doctor, often a general practitioner, who looks after the health of the members of a family and keeps their medical histories
Examples of 'family doctor' in a sentence
family doctor
Family doctors and A&E units are facing intolerable demands and the health service will collapse if patients do not agree to go elsewhere, they say.