i think the point of posting this is clear, hence the curtness of my reply.
Neena Jha has made her bed (and been, rightly deconstructed, by a deluge of responses) by at best naively or worst deliberately provocatively implying that physios are not competent to see undifferentiated pts - more specifically / critically - may miss ‘red flag’ cases.
Yet it’s actually physios and other allied HCPs who have led the way in raising awareness in serious pathology recognition by producing landmark published documents like this one.
So, not only are physios fundamentally better than GPs in true msk assessment & management, it also seems they acknowledge & address the ‘ knowledge gap’, seek to fill it, and disseminate this information.
This is a doctor (not physio) who has worked as a GP and developed / led CCG wide msk interface services, suggesting to other doctors that physios are better than us in this role 🤷
The lack of knowledge is no fault of the GPs - it is a training issue. But that shouldn’t preclude us from showing some humility about our
limitations & get over a superiority complex - appreciate & embrace the skillset of their clinician colleagues.