But this again comes from the fact that general practitioners, psychiatrists, medical specialists get almost no nutrition training through all those years of study.
To steer patients away from hospitals, general practitioners have been encouraged to find their 1%—those patients likely to die in the next year—and start talking about end-of-life care.
" I never understood what common sense meant applied to complicated problems--unless it means that a general practitioner can perform a better operation than a specialist" .
Well, the first thing you have to do is find a family doctor --- sometimes we call them general practitioners as well --- and register with him or her.
This was an innovation for one who had chosen to adopt the style of general practitioner in a country town, and would be felt as offensive criticism by his professional brethren.