This is due to the distribution of the sample group that involved many specialist physicians and less general physicians, who are usually less expert in these specific diseases.
However, the relative complexity of headache subtypes and diagnostic criteria may confuse many general practitioners and even neurological physicians in primary and secondary care who are not familiar with the ICHD criteria.
These concerns argue against many general dentists and primary care physicians biopsying lesions suspicious for oral precancer/cancer and highlight the potential benefits in having such procedures performed by practitioners with advanced training whenever possible.
Although this study included only one institution, our results can be generalized to many hospitals and physicians because our subjects were general physicians working in an acute-care hospital.
In many countries, nurses, primary care providers and general physicians enjoy lower prestige and are less socially valued than other specialists and those working in hospitals, yet they are those more likely to accept to work in remote areas.
The experiences gained in these programs vary greatly, and to date many general surgeons may rely on Emergency Medicine or Radiology physicians to perform a Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (FAST) examination.
The medical directors also suggested hypotheses that: Norwegian physicians are early adopters of new interventions while the British are more conservative; there are many clinical trials conducted in Norway involving many general practitioners; there is higher cost-awareness among physicians in the UK, in part due to fund holding; and there are publicly funded pharmaceutical advisors in the UK.
There are many general topics that would be of interest to critical care physicians that are missing, such as shock, pneumonia, and respiratory failure.
In many parts of the world, maternity care is provided in a multi-disciplinary team or network involving general physicians, obstetric specialists and midwives [ 1].
Many general public focus group participants in this study stated that their children were allergic to fruits without a formal physician diagnosis.
