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Really, Think ambulance chasers, class-action specialists, and medical specialists. Why are there so few family practitioners, yet so many specialists.
by euroclydon 17y ago
Really, Think ambulance chasers, class-action specialists, and medical specialists. Why are there so few family practitioners, yet so many specialists.
- philwelch 17y agoMedical specialists make more money. That's a pretty shallow explanation though, because the question is why. Assuming some level of supply and demand still applies to the medical profession, people seem to go to specialists more often than GP's even for things a GP could probably handle. But why do they do that? One possible explanation is that people don't like doctors, so they only go when something is wrong with them, at which point they spend most of their time seeing a specialist for that particular ailment and then forgetting about it. Oh, yeah, liability. A GP can reduce their liability by referring you to someone else pretty often. It's also possible that being a specialist carries other benefits, like prestige and status and personal interest.