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Eric Bram's avatar

This may be a red herring. My last GP was a pulmonary expert; that didn’t mean I had lung cancer.

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Michael Ciaramitaro's avatar

What you describe in your GP is not unusual. Any internist who's done a post-residency fellowship (pulmonary, arthritis and rheumatism, gastroenterology, etc) may not be able to attract enough patients in that sub-specialty to keep busy.

As a result, they end up caring for a lot of general medicine patients.

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Anmif's avatar

And how many times a year were you scheduled to visit with this "pulmonary GP"? (And did he come to your house?)

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Eric Bram's avatar

That's irrelevant since I'm not president of United States. If I were, my GP would come to "my house" plenty of times, regardless of what his specialty was.

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