What is General Medicine?

General medicine or Internal medicine is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of internal diseases especially in adults.

Who is a physician?

Doctors specializing in internal medicine are called physicians or internal medicine specialists. They are skilled in the management of patients who have undifferentiated or multi-system disease processes. Physicians care for ambulatory (outpatient) and hospitalized (inpatient) patients and play a major role in coordinating with other sub specialists to formulate a detailed treatment plan for each individual patientThey are especially well trained in the diagnosis of puzzling medical problems, in the ongoing care of chronic illnesses, and in caring for patients with more than one disease. Internal medicine physicians also specialize in health promotion, life style modification, disease prevention and screening programmes for early detection of disease and treatment.At Bhanavi Hospital, General Medicine Department has team of senior internal medicine specialists with vast knowledge and experience in the field to maintain and provide comprehensive medical care with continuity.

General Medicine professionals at Bhanavi focus on:

1. Detailed history taking, clinical examination, evaluation and diagnosis in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of specialists
2.   Chart out plan of action as per latest Evidence- based protocols in patient care after educating and engaging the patient and attenders in decision making
3.   Provide comprehensive care for both outpatient and in patients  with continuity of care by coordinating with multiple medical  specialists when needed to solve even a complex medical problem
4.  To partner with surgeons and intensivists for optimising patients for surgical procedures and  providing excellent  perioperative care
5.  We give importance to Preventive health care, such as lifestyle modification, health education, vaccination, periodic health check-ups and screening programmes for various diseases like BP, diabetes, anemia, cancers.