Internal medicine / or Therapy is the basis for the formation
of narrow specialties
“Daughter subjects“:
Cardiology (dealing with disorders of the heart and blood vessels)
Gastroenterology (concerned with the field of digestive
diseases)
Pulmonology (dealing with diseases of the lungs and
the respiratory tract)
Rheumatology (devoted to the diagnosis and therapy of rheumatic diseases)
Hematology (concerned with blood, the blood-forming organs and its disorders)
Nephrology (dealing with the study of the function and diseases of the kidney)
Endocrinology (dealing with disorders of the endocrine system and its specific secretions called hormones)
Infectious disease (concerned with disease caused by a biological agent such as by a virus, bacterium or parasite)
Occupational diseases
and a number of other specialties.