In Italy General Practitioners visit from their local offices, or they can come to your home if you can't move for any reason. When you're 14 you just go to a l

In Italy General Practitioners visit from their local offices, or they can come to your home if you can't move for any reason. When you're 14 you just go to a local SSN (our NHS) office and you pick one who is convenient for you and still has available spots, and then you simply go to his or her office during visit times. Having a doctor who you know is constantly there, knows you and your medical history is quite nice, so much that you often have to wait a long time because old folks tend to go to their office just to chat, so I guess they tend to also be an impromptu psychological service for those who need support. Obviously the other side of the coin is that your doctor may have way too many people assigned to his practice, and seeing him means waiting for hours in its waiting room, which is for some simply not feasible. When it's late, or an holiday, and your doctor is not in its office, you can go to a local walk in clinic ("Guardia medica") if you need a doctor but it's not an emergency (the hospital's ER is free only for actual medical emergencies).