Internal medicine
This extremely extensive field of medicine covers the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases affecting the internal organs and includes specialisms such as rheumatology and haematology.
Where a patient is suffering from multiple conditions at the same time, it is essential to treat the person as a whole. Specialists in internal medicine perform investigations, carry out treatments and prescribe whatever medications are needed. They can also call on specialists in other fields as necessary. Their broad-based knowledge covers many very different systems of the body, such as the cardiovascular system, the kidneys and urinary tract, the respiratory system, blood and blood-forming organs, the digestive system, the musculoskeletal system, and the metabolic and hormone systems. Personalised care, the patient’s general well-being and confidence in the doctor are particularly important during this attentive treatment.
Medical specialities
| Dialysis |
| Geriatric medicine |
| Hematology |
| Infectious diseases |
| Metabolic syndrome |
| Nephrology |
| Pneumonology |
| Rheumatology |
| Senology |