As a practicing private practitioner, I will divide specialists in private practice into 2 categories and I will call them frontline specialists and supportive specialists. Let me explain further.
A frontline specialist is a specialist who has direct contact with patients. These are the specialists whom patients look for to seek treatment. Examples of these specialities are: Medicine and its subspecialities (general medicine, cardiologist, endocrinologists, rheumatologists etc), Paediatrics, Surgery and its subspecialties, Orthopaedic surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology. ENT specialists, Ophthalmologists etc.
Supportive specialists are those who support the frontline specialists. Patients don't seek them out. Examples of these specialities are Anaesthesiologists, Pathologist and Radiologist.
In this podcast I will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these two different categories.
