Absolutely. If you have a disease which is uncommon or need a surgery which is uncommon, consider traveling to a center specializing in treatment. For example,

Absolutely. If you have a disease which is uncommon or need a surgery which is uncommon, consider traveling to a center specializing in treatment. For example, while a doctor at a regional center might have a 100 breast cancer patients in a year, other cancers have only 10 patients in the whole US per year. That regional center doctor is only likely to see a single patient with that disease in his life. In that case, I would seek out those who study that disease.