Prescriptions written by general practitioners and medical specialists were studied and compared to determine the type, time of onset and clinical importance of drug-drug interactions (DDIs) in an attempt to reduce further complications. In 2007, 28, 956, 638 prescriptions and 15, 610, 912 prescriptions in 2008 were filled by pharmacies affiliated with medical science universities. These prescr...

Advances have brought cautious hope for patients with this progressive and deadly disease. Intravenous prostanoids are still the most effective long-term medications, but oral options are available for select patients who are closely monitored. General internists and specialists in pulmonary, cardiac, and rheumatic diseases each have their role in managing these patients.

Cardiologists are involved in 22 percent of all claims involving a cardiology-related diagnosis, followed in frequency by internists (19 percent), family medicine practitioners (14 percent), hospitalists (8 percent), emergency medicine doctors (7 percent), anesthesiologists (4 percent), and cardiac surgeons (3 percent), according to The Doctors Company, the nation’s largest physician-owned medi...

There has been considerable change in the practice of internal medicine in the past quarter century, including the rise of specialization, increasing time pressure, the hospitalist movement, and the rapidly changing responsibilities of internists in inpatient and outpatient settings. Training programs have not adequately responded to these trends, and there is a consensus that the residency edu...

BACKGROUND Although total influenza vaccine doses available in the 2005/2006 influenza season were over 80 million, CDC received many reports of delayed and diminished vaccine shipments in October to November of 2005. To better understand the supply problems, CDC and partners surveyed several health care professional groups. METHODS Surveys were sent to representative samples of influenza vac...

OBJECTIVE  To determine whether patient outcomes differ between general internists who graduated from a medical school outside the United States and those who graduated from a US medical school. DESIGN  Observational study. SETTING  Medicare, USA. PARTICIPANTS  20% national sample of data for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries aged 65 years or older admitted to hospital with a medical...

The article provides a summary of the 2021 European Society Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines for diagnosis and treatment acute chronic heart failure (CHF). most significant changes general practitioners, internists primary care cardiologists, from our point view, regards etiology, terminology, as well algorithms diagnosing treating CHF in accordance with phenotypes, new indications to number drugs, ...