| Abstrakt: |
In this paper I am speaking not as a surgical specialist whose attention and interests are focused solely on the eradication of lesions at the outlet of the digestive tract but as a physician whose concern it is to see more sick persons restored to health. On the basis of my own experience, I believe that I can point out how the special knowledge and skills of the proctologist, or, if another name is preferred, the specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of anorectal and colon diseases, might be used to better advantage by internists, including gastroenterologists, cardiologists, and others, and by general practitioners, in promoting the common aim of all of us, that is, the improvement of medical care.Those of us who practice a medical or surgical specialty may tend to exaggerate the importance of the lesions and conditions with which we constantly deal and to minimize the |
