An internal medicine physician is a primary care physician who specializes in treating adults 18 and older, develop one-on-one relationships that cover emotional as well as physical health care needs.
When we talk about medicine, it’s often easier to look at different diseases and conditions as clear-cut, independent problems. In reality, that’s simply not how your body works. A disease of one organ can cause problems elsewhere in your body, leading to still more interconnected problems. Or you may have an unusual collection of symptoms that don’t seem to point to any one disease. This is where doctors of internal medicine (also called ‘internists’) come in.
Internal medicine often deals with patients who are seriously ill. The physicians who have chosen this as their specialty are experts at untangling complicated medical problems and getting to the root causes of intertwined conditions and disease processes. As a result our internists at INTEGRIS Health do much of their work in hospitals. Our internists will do all they can to unravel complex arrays of symptoms and help you heal.
