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Old 17-10-2021, 04:06 AM
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not sure what's your background, but you prolly haven't worked in many different settings before.
one of the privileges of having rotated through many specialist departments, is seeing how specialists manage stuff.
everything outside of their domain, they will just shoot off a referral letter to someone else.

patient tells cardiologist about skin problem > refer derm
patient tells ortho about AR symptoms > refer ENT
patient tells gastro about headache > refer neuro
patient tells gynae about asthma > refer respi

everybody is referring all over the place. hence the need for generalists.
Just a word of caution for those gung ho generalists/FP.

Be self aware. The cardiologist ortho gastro and gynae will not help you when you screw up managing one of thei cases or missed something. They will say why didnt you refer to me earlier.?

I am pro FP and believe there is a lot of benefit to society to have a strong FP fraternity
But must also see SG culture what do patients want also? Many sg patients prefer see specialists. Sure those got many different discipline problem might be happy with FP.
Just be careful. From experience FP love to talk up very big how they can manage everything but even FP themselves have different interests and expertis and LIMITS!

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