One of the issues with specialty medical care is that you aren’t seen as a whole person. The orthopedic guy sees you as a candidate for surgery a, b or c. He m

One of the issues with specialty medical care is that you aren’t seen as a whole person. The orthopedic guy sees you as a candidate for surgery a, b or c. He may miss that something else is going on. A treatment may be “unproven” for a symptom, but perfectly acceptable for a root cause.