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But there's no indication that anyone is asking this all important question: Do you (or will you) like working with patients who are old and sickly. How do you feel about old people in general? Do you value them? Would you look upon a 90 year old patient as having a future, or would you look upon that person as having lived long enough already? As a family doctor, what do you know about the special needs of the elderly? You haven't specialized in Geriatrics, so what makes you think you will know everything that you need to know to provide the best possible care?
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By choosing internal medicine as their specialty years before this, they have chosen to specialize in the specialty that takes care of the elderly and branches out into geriatrician subspecialty, and that's why the others did not choose that specialty.
And by applying for the job in this community of 100,000 people over 55, it's quite obvious the applicants know what the patient population will be.
And by the way, I think we all know that the "Marcus Welby" label is just like the jingle, "Pop Pop Fizz Fizz Oh What a Relief it IS" that Alka Seltzer ran on television and radio in the 1960's. The point is......we REMEMBER it and what the product was/is.