SAP stellt Hunderte Autisten ein

In this interview, endocrinologist Jen Dyer shares her wisdom. With her recently founded company and app, Jen sets out to improve the health of millions of young patients suffering from diabetes. Her ideas and boldness can serve as an inspiration to many of our fellow physicians! Read more here.

Think about how the role of the physician has changed during the last thousands of years. From the greeks to ancient egypt to modern medicine, which again, within it again has evolved extensively. In general, medicine has gotten a lot more complicated. The role of the physician has also changed rapidlly and radically. While the physician has always been a single individual, a healer, a human being capable of preventing, detecting and ultimately treating illnesses. When the world had little knowledge about medicine and conditions the physician’s job was not only far more mystic, but also a lot simpler. It really required less training, less work, less specialization. The circumstances modern healthcare indirectly created are ubiquitious and have shaped all aspects of medicine, except for the physician. The chopped physician is not existant, yet it should be. Modern medicine requires team work to function properly. People working in healthcare usually are responsible for very certain and defined tasks. Phlebologists take blood, Echocardiographers perform sonography of your heart, MTAs do this, and Y does that. Yet the physician has not “chopped” herself. If physicians were to adapt to the diversification of modern medicine, than they must do so themselves by diversifying themselves. […]