Most patients are quite unhappy when their family physician needs to refer them to a specialist. Specialists are expensive and very busy. While many of them are skilled technicians, they are often not very empathetic, because they are so focused on performing the procedures they specialised in. They very rarely establish a personal emotional connect with the patient.
Most refuse to share information with their patients, as a result of which many of them are completely clueless about what's happening. They feel abandoned by their family physician as well who often has no idea about that the specialist is doing. Family doctors need to remember that referring a patient to the right specialist is a major responsibility. If you send them to a bad specialist, they will resent this when they find out that they received poor quality care ( as they will, when they get a second opinion, or do…
