Internal Medicine is one special division of medicine that includes surgery, paediatrics and, under exceptional circumstances, ob-gyn. These specialities have further sub-divisions in themselves as well, which can be easily derived from General Internal Medicine. They can be organ-oriented, like cardiology and nephrology; system-oriented, like immunology; age-oriented, like geriatrics; condition-oriented, like pregnancy.
So what can be readily ascertained from the abovementioned fact is that General Internal Medicine is an all-encompassing medical treatment where not a single section goes untouched. What gives it the edge is being non-surgical and invasive. There’s no gender bias for such treatment, and it treats all the organs with all the diseases that are susceptible to medical treatment, especially the critical ones where multiple organs are affected due to one or various diseases with or without co-morbidity.
Vijaya Prakash Boggala, who is one of the renowned names in the field of Internal medicine and has made it his speciality, believes that the preferred level of attention that general internal medicine puts is curative or secondary prevention, even after having both knowledge and training for primary attention. Internal medicine does have the ability to treat the medical pathologies concerned with pregnant women and many medical complications that might arise during surgeries and anaesthesia. Internal Medicine has found itself a strong foundation in epidemiology and evidence-based medicine.
Although its objective is not paying attention to the greater population but solely the patient himself, using the bio-psycho-social model, which is highly popular in the medical field, what makes internal medicine a hot favourite in the industry is being updated with the current knowledge of medical technology and never abuses technology, since its foundation has been the clinical practice. Therefore, it employs semiology and complements it with therapeutics.
Another reason General internal medicine has grown in popularity in the market is the scope it provides to all its subspecialties to develop as an individual mode of treatment. Like other specialities, it has given enough room for each to create, exist, and grow as one of the most significant therapeutic procedures. No one can ever find a professional internist forcefully intruding into practices like cardiac catheterism or digestive endoscopy- these are some respective fields which are left to their specific subspecialties. As the era of super specialisation moves forward, fueled by the technological changes and growth of medical knowledge, general internal medicine grows more substantial and prominent. Following this specialisation model, internal medicine specialists like Vijaya Prakash Boggala revindicate the generalist spirit of internism, which corresponds with the complementary vision of life. Internal medicine specialists aim to solve 80% of the medical problems that patients face, understand the angle of their pathologies, and interact with different issues to harmonise them. They ensure that your mind and body, heart and soul are synchronised.
