Comments on: Great physicians focus on patients, not on diseases http://www.medrants.com/archives/3359 Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: amit gupta http://www.medrants.com/archives/3359/comment-page-1#comment-507436 amit gupta Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:54:36 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/index.php/archives/3359#comment-507436 Is it wrong if the subspecialists focus on the disease? I guess thats the reason why we need specialists. I agree that they should focus on the disease in the context of the whole patient. Often time, generalists and internists refer the patient to specialists just to share the burden of care. Is it wrong if the subspecialists focus on the disease? I guess thats the reason why we need specialists. I agree that they should focus on the disease in the context of the whole patient. Often time, generalists and internists refer the patient to specialists just to share the burden of care.

]]> By: Jared http://www.medrants.com/archives/3359/comment-page-1#comment-507412 Jared Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:29:50 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/index.php/archives/3359#comment-507412 DB, You, for the sake of completeness should also mention that in medical school, for at least the two years of the basic sciences, students receive at least 10 times the treatment of diseases and treatments compared to patients as people. Our education system in that regard is defective by design. -SSG J DB,
You, for the sake of completeness should also mention that in medical school, for at least the two years of the basic sciences, students receive at least 10 times the treatment of diseases and treatments compared to patients as people.

Our education system in that regard is defective by design.

-SSG J

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