'Ask Dr. Brian' Show: Answer #1  On December 15, 2008, White
Coat, Black Art is giving the show over to you. We're answering
the questions you have about how the health care system works.
It's our way of saying thanks for the support you've given the
show during our three seasons. We've been deluged with questions
-- enough to fill a season's worth of shows! From now until the
'Ask Dr. Brian' show airs, we'd like to answer some of your
questions on our blog.  Janik G.Tremblay of St-Basile-le-Grand,
Quebec wrote in to say he had a gastrointestinal problem for
which he saw more than one specialist without success, only to
find much later the one doctor who was able to diagnose an
allergy and to recommend effective treatement. He asks:  Why
don't specialists talk to each other? Why don't they know what
research has been done in another specialty that has
ramifications in their own specialty? If this is too much
information to manage, as I imagine it is, why aren't computer
systems involved in this? PLEASE TALK T