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Friday, November 14, 2003Wow. You FPs are something else. The "doctors for every age"? Give me a break. Your claim that Dr. Dean would not have treated children shows you have NO idea about what takes place in many "rural" areas in the country. Where do you practice? There were a couple of commenters on the Tech Central Station site who made similar points, although without the insult to family medicine. Actually, I do have an idea of what takes place in rural areas. I used to practice in one. Internists don't see five year olds. They simply aren't trained to do so. There are some doctors, of an older generation than Dean, who practice general medicine. Their training consisted of a rotating internship for a year in which they learned surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics, and medicine. They call themselves general practitioners, not internists. I suspect my correspondent is of that generation. Dean isn't. His training is in internal medicine, a specialty that concentrates entirely on adult medicine. That's why combined residencies sprang up in pediatrics and internal medicine: 1) to allow people who wanted to specialize yet be able to treat both adults and children, and 2) to allow others the opportunity to be primary care providers for both adults and children. Besides, Dr. Dean's practice wasn't that rural. He practiced in Shelburne, Vermont, only 7.1 miles from Burlington, home of University of Vermont and its medical school. Dean just isn't the "straight talker" he claims to be. posted by Sydney on 11/14/2003 06:32:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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