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Laments of a General Practitioner (1)
I may sound silly, but just what is a general practitioner? He
is the foot-soldier, the frontline man in medicine.
He deals with the patient when he first falls ill – the
man at grassroot level. At this stage, he treats the patient
5 where he is competent to treat, or else channels him to the
right specialist if he feels that specialist attention is needed, 2
or if he feels incompetent to deal with the problem. In the
old days, the GP was also a family friend, counsellor and
even mentor.
Medical students are taught the subjects of internal
medicine, paediatrics, general surgery, orthopaedic surgery,
obstetrics and gynaecology, ophthalmology, ear, nose and
throat surgery, dermatology and infectious diseases, pre-
ventive medicine and public health, amongst others, to a
15 functional degree of competence. They also learn forensic
medicine and pathology: the former interests the GP less;
the latter is mainly concerned with diagnosis, as is bio-
chemistry. So a student has, theoretically, very wide scope
After graduation, he has to do six months of surgery
if he decides to go on his own in general practice.
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