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Family Medicine

The Department of Family Medicine (FM) at United Family Hospital is at the core of connecting patients, families, and other healthcare teams. Putting our patients at the center of our services,adopting best practice standards, UFH’s FM team is committed to providing high-quality, continuous and comprehensive healthcare to patients of all ages.

All our FM physicians have undergone specialty training and obtained certificates from domestic or international professional committees. We are proficient in managing common medical problems in the community, particularly long-term conditions. We can also provide individualized and evidence-based preventive health care advices for healthy people. We hope to become a professional friend of our patients, so as to achieve our long-term goal of promoting health and empowering self-care of the population.

Family Medicine Services

Preventive Health Services

  • General annual health checks
  • School and pre-employment health checks
  • Cancer screening (including HPV and cervical screening)
  • Chronic disease screening and cardiovascular disease risk assessment
  • Adult vaccinations and travel clinics
  • Healthy lifestyle education, weight management, smoking cessation guidance

Care of Common Diseases

  • Common infections in children and adults
  • Common conditions of digestive system
  • Headache, dizziness, fatigue or aches and pains
  • ENT and eye symptoms
  • Acute and chronic injury or pain of muscles and joints
  • Common skin rashes and allergies

Management of Long-term Conditions

  • Hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, gout
  • Thyroid dysfunction
  • Asthma, COPD
  • Migraine, insomnia, depression, anxiety, and etc.

Women’s and Men’s Health

  • Common gynecological symptoms, e.g. abnormal discharge, menstruation disorders, lower abdominal pain, peri-menopausal syndrome
  • Pre-conception counseling
  • Contraception advice
  • Common symptoms of male genitourinary system
  • STD screening and treatment

Minor Trauma and Surgeries & Sprains and Minor Injuries

  • Small wound care
  • Incision and drainage of skin abscess or paronychia
  • Nail extraction
  • Excision of skin lumps or lesions
  • Cryotherapy

General OPD Service

  • Nebulizer treatments, sinus irrigation, IM injections
  • BPPV maneuver
  • Lung function test, sleep studies
  • Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and Holter ECG
  • Interpretation of health check reports
  • Repeat prescriptions
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