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Originally Posted by acrosome
There is no such specialty as a "diagnostician." Every physician is a diagnostician, with few possible exceptions. (Radiation oncologists?) Trust me, Dr. House is an internist- albeit one who has carved himself a very specific niche in his institution. And you'll note that he also treats his patients- or at least the ones that are treatable. That's Physician skill.
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If there isn't such a specialty there should be.
My wife has been mistreated by the US medical profession for the last decade. She has, supposedly, Chronic Ideopathic Intestinal Psuedo-Obstruction. I quit work about then to be her full time caregiver.
She goes in for hernia surgery at one of the best hospitals in the world for her problem, The Cleveland Clinic. She goes there to be operated on about twice a year. She has some major nerve problems resulting in something like cauda equine syndrome (sp?), but the docs in our home town refused to diagnose her as such nor to have checked surgically, so she has had a foley for the past four or five years.
I would give a lot for a specialist in diagnosis who could look at her case with a fresh head and actually figure out what is wrong. As it is, because medicine is so compartmentalized she's in a wheelchair (bilateral patellar tendon rupture due to the antibiotics prescribed by her former family care doctor).
So for those rare cases which are more difficult than a cold, somebody who can give the difficult cases a look would be wonderful!