My DH doesn't have a GP, his primary Dr is an internist, board certified cardiologist & thoracic surgeon. In these areas he is brilliant but when it comes to GP type stuff he is fairly clueless and way too proud to refer my DH to another doctor.
DH once came down with a walloping urinary tract infection on a Friday night and had to wait till Monday AM to see the doc. After spending 2+ days under piles of blankets he had a heat rash on his chest - which the doc looked at, handed him a rash cream, and sent him home. grrr

I felt tht the poem wasn't about Ts conferring with colleagues, as much as it was about Ts having their own Ts - speaking for myself I would worry about a T who had issues com eup and didn't / wouldn't have a T to go to.