In the broadest meaning of 'medicine', there are many different specialties, which additionally have many sub-specialties. However, within medical circles, medicine usually denotes doctors that specialise in one internal medicine specialties, as opposed to surgery or radiology. The various specialties can be categorised thus:
- Surgical specialities - the use of manually operative and instrumental techniques to treat disorders.
- Internal medicine - concerns the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases in adults, especially of internal organs.
- Diagnostic specialties, rather examines disorders (especially imaging specialities) than directly attempts to cure.
- Anaesthetics - specialise in anaesthetising patients for procedures and optimising analgesia
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