Originally Posted by Unregistered

FM cases are honestly pretty complex.
if you work in the hospitals and see all the patients with 10 different inpatient issues.
you may not really think about what happens to them outpatient, but most of them end up in OPS / CH one way or another.

imagine having to sort out all these issues within one visit, without the luxury of slowly titrating medications and doing daily labs to monitor the outcome of your management.
you can't spend the entire morning calling up every family member to get corroborative history. you can't just order a CT scan at the slightest hint of something going amiss.
you can't just do a phone consult (at least officially anyway) to a relevant subspec to ask for help.

on top of that, having to deal with the whole person - biopsychosocial, preventive care, home environment, falls, etc
FM is the first and last line of defence for most patients