Must you be a specialist to have any credibility?
. . . one of the knocks on generalists is that in the rush to save money, system players have forgotten that their purpose was to foster the distribution of resources in a manner consistent with the best population health outcomes. In so doing, we have devalued our generalists to the point that GP’s in the US must be specialists for no other reason that they would have no credibility otherwise.
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