General Medicine is the medical speciality dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of internal diseases and well being of the individual as whole. Physicians are skilled in the management of patients who have undifferentiated or multi-system disease processes. Internal medicine and family medicine are often confused as equivalent in the Commonwealth nations.
The medical field is as expansive and multifaceted as the intricacies of the human body. Doctor specialities exist for each of these fields of medicine to serve the needs of a particular realm of care offers several Subspecialities, including the following:
- Infectious Disease
- Oncology
- Haematology
- Cardiac Diseases
- Respiratory Diseases
- Critical Care Medicine
- Disease Of Kidney And Urinary Tract
- Diseases Of Gastrointestinal System
- Hypertension
- Diabetes
- Immune Mediated Diseases
- Poisoning And Drug Over Doses
- Geria