Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Medicine

In the extensive sense of 'medicine', there are several different specialties. Though, in medical circles, there are two categories: "Medicine" and "Surgery." "Medicine" refers to the carry out of non-operative medicine, and most subspecialties in this part need preliminary education in "Internal Medicine." "Surgery" refers to the carry out of operative medicine, and most subspecialties in this part need preliminary education in "General Surgery." There are some expertise of medicine that do not well into moreover of these categories, such as radiology, pathology, or anaesthesia.

Surgery has a lot of subspecialties, e.g. general surgery, vascular surgery, orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, maxillofacial surgery, cardiovascular surgery, otolaryngology, plastic surgery, oncologic surgery, trauma surgery and pediatric surgery. In a few centre, anesthesiology is part of the division of surgery even though it is not a surgical discipline.

Internal medicine is concerned with general diseases of adults, i.e. individuals diseases that distress the body as a whole, or with all adult non-operative somatic medicine, thus without pediatrics, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, and psychiatry. Practitioners of such area of expertise are referred to as Physicians.

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