Often patients are confused by a doctor referring them to another doctor. Why does this happen? Does it mean you made a bad decision going to the first doctor? Should you now rather go to the specialist doctor whenever you get ill in the future?
These are some of the common names for specialists. It is important to understand that healthcare has been separated into the easier cases and the complicated cases. Doctors (general practitioners) see patients who suffer from common ailments but when these get complicated then a doctor that specializes in that particular disease should rather look at the case. As you may have guessed it by now, GPs are much cheaper than specialists for this reason.
I hope you enjoy this episode and that it makes this clearer for you.