Focus on super-specialists 'wrong'.

Australian Doctor,  April, 2007  

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By Heather Ferguson

THE nation's top doctor has admitted the current focus on training super-specialists is a mistake, predicting there will be a return to more generalist specialists in the future.

Chief medical officer Professor John Horvath told the MedEd conference in Melbourne last week that it was time to shift away from 'left toe versus right toe, descending versus ascending colon' specialists.

'A lot of us in this room were responsible for that approach; it was very fashionable in the 1970s,' Professor Horvath said. 'We got it wrong.'

It was incumbent on ...

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