Internal medicine and biomedicine in Poland: views from the inside and outside.

821 As a medical doctor, I had started my carrier in the field of internal medicine, but subsequently I spent most of my professional life working as a biomedical researcher. Moreover, a huge majority of my scientific activities have taken place abroad. Still, I have always been closely collaborating with renowned Polish researchers. In addition, my scientific work involved not only pure laboratory investigations but was often connected to clinical studies of different types. Finally, as part of my quite recent work, I have been involved in establishing some genetic assays for single-gene disorders as well as for analysis and interpretation of genetic testing results. Thus, although my perspective is rather subjective and has mostly foreign and not strictly clinical character, I am still providing some of my thoughts on internal medicine, as shortly outlined below.