PMID: 11624955Jan 1, 1996Paper

The position of medical specialists in the Netherlands (1890-1920

Gewina
A Juch

Abstract

At the end of the nineteenth century medical specialists came to the fore. In the larger cities they started to establish so-called dispensaries--clinics, not attached to hospitals--for medical aid of the poor. In this specialists differed from general practitioners, the GPs. With these dispensaries the specialists emphasized their own specific knowledge and skills in the treatment of patients with complaints in the field of their specialization. So, the specialists created an infrastructure which met the patients' specific requirements. Patients and municipal corporations were enthusiastic about it. The specialists needed the support, since the Dutch Medical Association [the Nederlandsche Maatschappij tot bevordering der Geneeskunst (NMG)] gave them no support at all. The most important group within the NMG, the GPs, felt that specialization threatened their sources of income and challenged their competence. Circa 1900 the GP was THE doctor for all categories of patients. Specialists, clearly recognisable by patients, disturbed this traditional structure. The NMG reacted on this new phenomenon of specialization either passively, or repressively. In theory the Association resigned itself to specialization as an inescapable resu...Continue Reading

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