[Supporting post of applied medicine].
Whilst specialists don't care much about defining themselves, general practitioners repeatedly are trying to describe their role in modern medicine. Nowadays they prefer to present themselves as gate-keepers at the house of medicine. In that paper it is outlined that this isn't a useful idea.
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