Question

Which healthcare professional is typically a secondary care provider

Answer 1

The answer is ophthalmologist. The other choices are not secondary care providers. An ophthalmologist is a medical doctor who specializes eye treatment. They are trained to diagnose diseases, ailments, and surgeries that involves the eyes. It is consider to be a secondary care provider because it specializes a medication and it is referred by the primary care providers to heal serious diseases

Answer 2

The healthcare professional who is typically a secondary care provider is a dermatologist. Primary care providers are those whom you go to first - so, you first see the doctor (physician) and his assistant/nurse, who then refer you to a specialist - a physician is usually a GP, which means that here the only specialist is a dermatologist who specializes in skin problems.