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