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1.04 What should a doctor be engaged in teaching? With classifications and sub-classifications of medical conditions recognised by the World Health Organisation now totalling over 16,000 and with thousands of treatment options, it is no surprise that each doctor increasingly becomes a unique specialist to a greater or lesser extent. This holds true even when the practitioner has the word ‘General’ in their title. However there is much more to being a good doctor than the broad term which is ‘technical expertise’. As far back as 1832, Dr Charles Hasting’s founded the British Medical Association with the express desire to r