One of my patients called me a “new age Marcus Welby” today! I was quite flattered. Do you remember the old TV show Marcus Welby, M.D.? He was the quintessential family doctor; he could take care of anything from a broken bone, to a baby being born, to relationship advice.
Whatever happened to that kind of GP? Whatever happened to taking care of the whole person? These days, our healthcare practitioners keep becoming more and more specialized. This can be very helpful at times, but we lose the perspective of the whole person and we no longer can trust that our doctors have a wide range of knowledge and are looking at the big picture. Specialization – on the positive side – means a comprehensive understanding of an aspect of the body. On the negative side, it can mean tunnel vision, a focus so narrow that you can’t see the forest for your microscopic analysis of one tree.
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