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Help please? what is the difference between family/internal, and general medicine?
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Many differences..: Internists' are office or hospital based, mainly diagnose/treat patients w/ chronic diseases/disorders, focusing on preventative/maintenance medicine in adults ages 12 and up as well as geriatrics and hospice patients. Family doctors' treat a wide variety of patients including babies, kids, adults with a wider range of diagnostics and treatments including pediatric and ob/gynecologic ; internal.
Answered 1/20/2017
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Medicine: internal and general medicine are the same dealing with mostly 18 and above, while family medicine also involves pediatrics generally.
Answered 7/4/2020
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