GPs have nothing to offer
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"There is nothing a general practitioner can teach an undergraduate student that a specialist cannot teach better". I have a colleague who firmly believes this. He claims that he has many supporters in academic medical circles. He is perfectly rational in arguing the case, but we do not seem to be able to agree on the starting point for such a discussion. Is this perhaps the reason why some of our universities have no, or merely embrionic departments of general practice?
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