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hermanzegermanlast Thursday at 7:32 AM1 replyview on HN

That's just a very arrogant take, from many patients that couldn't be more wrong.

Obviously a GP refers to specialists when necessary, but he is qualified to triage issues and perform initial treatment in many cases.


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hephaes7uslast Friday at 8:16 PM

Ok, to be fair, they _can_ probably handle my problems better than I can.

But, presumably for liability and out of a genuine attempt to get me the best care possible, they _prefer_ to send me off to a specialist. Either way I'm not being treated until the specialist has time, which take a couple months at least.