To the Editor: As a long-time resident of the “swamp of uncertainty” which is general practice — where specialists dare not go — I am accustomed to receiving guidelines and consensus statements from esteemed colleagues and friends who have taken to studying some specific part of the human condition. But these statements inevitably involve primary care, where general practitioners try to achieve balance.
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- Benalla, VIC.
Correspondence: drdog@iinet.net.au
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