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Too many doctors these days are trained as specialists, technicians, not as healers. They don't know much outside of their specialty and they aren't good at the human side of healing -- communication, understanding, the "team" thing that somebody mentioned above.
Someday, when the AMA loses its grip on medicine, we'll have another path to MD-hood than the standard medical school/internship route: we'll allow people to work their way up through nursing. Right now they can go as far as nurse practitioner, no farther, but I have had some amazingly good nurse practitioners in my time. These are people who've worked for 10-20 years in the field, seen it all from all angles, and kept going to school to move up in the profession. They are amazingly good and knowledgable. No good reason not to let them take that one extra step to MD-hood with appropriate training, or at least let them prescribe drugs. They are equal to or better than most primary care MDs I've dealt with.
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