From the president: STFM. Reflections on generalism in medicine.

Issues concerning the role of the generalist in medicine are not new. Indeed, we live in a specialty-oriented society which tends to define generalism in terms of specialism. Yet, as Gotshalk states, "Where it (the general aspect of a problem) is not satisfactorily handled, all specialization is an improvisation of temporary stopgaps on the way to ever recurrent crises."