Balance is key

As the blog says, specialization is essential to the medical field. As we begin to understand the details of certain diseases and conditions, we discover a whole new level of complexity of how they come to be and how they must be treated. Nevertheless, it is the primary care physician that must refer patients to the appropriate specialist. Without the primary care physician, specialized clinics would be crowded with self-diagnosed individuals, requesting perhaps very costly procedures, only to find that their diagnosis was wrong. Therefore, there is no question about it - there needs to be a balance.