internal medicine

     

Internal meicine is the medical specialty concerned with the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of unusual or serious diseases, especially where there is difficulty in diagnosis or management. In North America, specialists in internal medicine are commonly called internists. Elsewhere, especially in Commonwealth nations, such specialists are often called physicians, in the older, narrow sense of the word (in North America, physician now commonly applies to any medical practitioner).

Trivia about internal medicine

  • This specialty deals with the diagnosis & nonsurgical treatment of organ systems