Doctors take pride in mastering the scientific minutiae of medicine. On the top of the medical hierarchy are the super-specialists - the ones who have a lot of technical expertise in a very narrow slice of medicine. They're usually looked up to by other doctors because they're the doctor's doctors. They know practically everything there is to know about their personal area of interest, and because they attract a lot of referrals, their depth of knowledge in their domain is enormous.
However, all this super specialization comes with a price. Because they are so focused on the little segment of medicine which is of special interest to them, they sometimes fail to see the big picture. This is something which makes a lot of their patients extremely unhappy because they feel that these specialists have lost the human touch. Doctors need to remember that while it's great to specialize - to…
