General Medicine
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Internal medicine or general medicine is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Physicians specializing in internal medicine are called internists, or physicians. Internists are skilled in the management of patients who have undifferentiated or multi-system disease processes. Internists care for hospitalized and ambulatory patients. Internists often have subspecialty interests in diseases affecting particular organs or organ systems.
What is a general physician?
A general physician is a medical doctor who specialises in many diseases affecting the body, whose primary treatment does not involve surgery.
What is the role of Physician?
Physicians specializing in internal medicine are called internists, or physicians. They care for difficult, serious or unusual medical problems and continue to see the patient until these problems have resolved or stabilised.
What tests can general physicians perform?
General physicians can arrange a diverse range of tests appropriate to your condition. These may include bedside tests such as an electrocardiogram (ECG), urinalysis (U/A), blood sugar level, blood pressure, faecal occult blood test.
Do general physicians have specialty areas of interest?
Most general physician develop a special area of interest in one of the areas listed under medical conditions. Whilst they maintain a broad general medical knowledge they often tend to concentrate more on one area in which they have even further expertise.
What makes a General Physician special?
The unique combination of knowledge, training and skills distinguishes general physicians from other medical specialists and general practitioners. Through a rigorous and comprehensive training program, general physicians are:
- broadly educated to deal with the entire range of the patient’s medical problems
- thorough, logical and scientific in their approach to providing expert diagnosis
- able to assess and choose drugs and other medical therapies wisely to prevent and treat disease able to care for patients as whole people, not just body systems.
- highly skilled in clinical decision making and cost effective use of dwindling health care resources
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