The relationship between general practitioners and gastroenterologists has, generally, been a better one than with most other specialists. In the UK, this has in part been due to long fostered relationships between the British Society of Gastroenterology and the Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology. Also, there is a closely shared and common clinical agenda between general practitioners and gastroenterologists. Some aspects of gastroenterology, particularly dyspepsia, are managed essentially in primary …