Specialist for internal medicine
Internal medicine is particularly familiar with prevention, recognition, treatment and rehabilitation of diseases of the following body systems:
- Vascular system (angiology)
- Skeleton and connective tissue (rheumatology)
- Metabolism and hormones (endocrinology/diabetology)
- Digestive organs (gastroenterology)
- Blood and haematopoietic [blood producing] organs (haematology/oncology)
- Heart and circulation (cardiology)
- Kidneys and urinary tract (nephrology)
- Respiratory organs (pneumology)