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Originally Posted by skyguy79
It is a reasonable deduction that a geriatrician ("might," rather than) "would" provide better overall care as you stated, but not necessarily. With all due respect for the ask-a-nurse resource, those definitions you were given do NOT quite match what information I found from more than one source when researching.
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I'm not looking for a 100% guarantee of better overall care. I'm just looking for a reasonable likelyhood of better care. As I said in my opening post, why not have at least one geriatrician in every clinic. If you found different information, it may depend on the source. Ask-a-nurse seemed to be fair and unbiased. She wasn't trying to promote one or the other.
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From that research I had indicated on my prior post, "a Family Doctor's training includes geriatric medicine which is a sub-specialty of both family medicine and internal medicine that focuses on health care of elderly people. Simply put, a geriatrician is essentially an extension of those two medical disciplines.
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When you say "includes geriatric medicine" what exactly does that entail. All medical doctors get some schooling in nutrition but it's very little compared to someone who gets a degree in nutrition. Medical doctors, from what I have read, get just one class in nutrition. It's a tiny fraction of what a nutritionist gets.
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Might it just be a case of semantics here? I don't know, but in either case I just don't see it the way the ask-a-nurse put it and I'm more than happy with the qualifications of our doctor.
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I think a lot depends on the source. It makes me think of my father: When I was a kid I went with him to buy paint on sale at Sears. We needed several gallons to paint our house. Upon arriving at the paint department, my father asked the manager if the paint was good paint. The manager said, "Oh, yes sir! This is Sears best!" Later I asked my father if he thought there would be any possibility that the manager would have said otherwise.