Coming full circle the high-tech way

Excerpt

Time was when Dr. Jones knew how to take care of all our medical needs and everything he required was in that black bag he brought with him when he made a house call.¹ Then things began to get complicated as we learned more and more, and the information eventually became unmanageable for the family physician to handle alone. Technology exploded and provided enormous quantities of data that led to new, newer and newest treatment and surgical methodologies that were unimaginable generations ago—and, we are told, this is just the beginning! The saying goes that "there is no free lunch" and how true that is. In order to live longer and healthier lives and enjoy the best possible quality of life, we essentially traded off the comfort of trusting our body and soul to Dr. Jones and cut ourselves up into all the parts of which we are made and distributed them to specialists. Some may call this “progress”, but this divisional approach is unacceptable in our specialty: we are devoted to providing comprehensive care to the whole child and to do so throughout the critical years of growth and development, from birth to achievement of maturity. This requires the synthesis and not the fragmentation of knowledge from all the fields of medicine which influence the musculoskeletal and locomotion system throughout the years. …