The Department of Internal Medicine (internal) at Salus offers visitation and hospitalization services for all those diseases that do not require a surgical treatment, but can be treated with pharmacological therapy at the patient's home or, for the most acute cases, with hospitalization. The distinguishing feature of the Specialist in Internal Medicine is his ability to integrate knowledge in different fields in order to derive a specific diagnosis from the family history, physiological and from the patient's visit.
General Medicine deals with:
PREVENTION
Troubleshooting
Non-surgical therapy
Internal Medicine includes the prevention and diagnosis of diseases for all "internal" organs and systems such as:
Respiratory system: Pneumology
Cardiovascular apparatus: Cardiology
Digestive system: Gastroenterology
Urinary system: Nephrology
Blood and hemopoietic organs: Hematology
Metabolic system
Endocrine system: Endocrinology
Infectious diseases: Infectiology
Allergic and immunological diseases: Clinical immunology, Allergology
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue: Rheumatology
Neurological disease
Specialist contact with Internal Medicine is necessary for the rarest and organ-specific pathologies. Often the patient presents with a symptom (concern) that may depend on diseases that affect different organs (for example "dyspnea" or "shortness of breath" or "lack of air in breathing" may depend on a heart disease, or on a lung disease, or even from a blood disease). For this reason, in most cases, the patient with a disease symptom finds a diagnosis and an appropriate therapy after a consultation with a Specialist in Internal Medicine. If the encountered disease will result after performing the first examinations, because it belongs closely to a specialty, the Internist doctor directs the patient to the right specialist, avoiding other unnecessary examinations and visits. If the encountered pathology did not need another specialist visit, the patient will receive advice and cure for the disease.
The Internal Medicine specialist deals with the evaluation of the patient's problems in their entirety, both physical and psychological. Interprets signs and symptoms coming from all the organs and devices to then decide, if necessary, the deepening of the research with instrumental examinations oriented towards the problem or if the clinical opinion of the specialist in the field should be sought, which, in the specific case, is more aware of the problem.
It is the doctor specially prepared to raise the first diagnostic suspicion and to establish a therapy consisting of several drugs for different diseases. Internal medicine relies on "non-surgical" therapeutic instruments, using mainly behavioral advice and pharmacological therapy (drugs). In a large part of the cases, the pathologies belonging to this field are "chronic" in nature (for example: arterial hypertension, diabetes, heart failure, dyslipidemia (disorder/increase of fats), rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis) and the patient who is affected by them it needs to be followed and visited from time to time for life.
For this reason, the Internist doctor turns into the patient's trusted doctor, either because he knows his entire personal and health history, and because he knows how to treat and resolve other diseases that appear during his life, case by case.
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