Because of the recent technological advances in modern medicine, every doctor seems to have become a superspecialist. They have a lot of expertise in their particular domain, but they often don't have a holistic picture of the entire patient. While they know a lot about the particular organ system in which they specialise, they don't care about the other body systems which the patient also has. Patient care starts getting fragmented, and this is why the patient's diabetic specialist has no interest or clue as to what her nephrologist is doing.
This is why it's so important that patients learn to become experts on their diseases. Otherwise they will end up getting completely messed up because of the crossfire between specialists . Tests will be needlessly repeated; multiple drugs will be prescribed, which may interact with each other and cause side-effects; and the lack of coordination…
