title: The advantages and disadvantages of subspecialization.
abstract: Writing as a subspecialist I intend to show: (1) that subspecialization is as necessary in developing countries as it is in developed countries; (2) that there are universal principles of human nature likely to govern the process of subspecialization, independently of a country's political system or health care policies; and (3) that the pyramidal system of tertiary referrals to subspecialists is threatening to price doctors out of many people's reach.
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D003906:Developing Countries; D006176:Gynecology; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine; D009774:Obstetrics; D013038:Specialization