With rapid advancement in technology, diagnostic aids, and progressive learning pattern, it is observed that ideal line of management of a particular type of patients has gone a change in recent times. There has been a quantum jump from clinical diagnosis to information assisted diagnosis or in other words Evidence Based Medicine. Earlier, perhaps the pattern of disease management used to remain same or similar for quite some time and a doctor who had managed more number of cases carried an aura of an expert or experience and was respected by his or her junior colleagues as well as by the patients.
Does experience count anymore among medicos? Does a doctor having obtained his or her degree 20 years back carry more respect and following as compared to a new graduate or post graduate? A new superspecialist will have more authority or say in matters related to his or her sub specialty.…
