Physicians who are not trained in the primary care specialties of family medicine, general internal medicine, or general pediatrics may sometimes provide patient care services that are usually delivered by primary care physicians.
Word Origin and History for hospitality Expand n. late 14c., act of being hospitable, from Old French hospitalitÃ©, from Latin hospitalitem (nominative hospitalitas) friendliness to guests, from hospes (genitive hospitis) guest (see host (n.1)).
The origin of the name is the same as the origin of the Levant, the region of the eastern Mediterranean: it is the Middle French word levant, the participle of lever to raise â as in soleil levant rising sun â from the Latin levare. It thus referred to the Eastern direction of the rising sun.