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Cholesterol Center

Facts about cholesterol — from understanding how high cholesterol affects your health to medication to help lower cholesterol.

What is cholesterol?

Find out how cholesterol affects your body and understand tests to measure cholesterol levels.

Promoting healthy cholesterol

Lifestyle measures to help lower cholesterol are the first line of defense.

Cholesterol treatment

Information about medications and supplements that can help lower cholesterol.



 
 

Internal Medicine

Heart Medicine and Chest Pain Clinic affords you the opportunity to receive Primary and Specialty Care at one location. You have the advantantage of having your Primary Care physician serving as your Cardiology Specialist. The efficiency at Heart Medicine & Chest Pain Clinic not only saves you time, it affords you a better quality of care.

Dr. Rollington Ferguson is a UCLA Medical School graduate and a Board Certified Cardiologist, and Internal Medicince physician.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What can you expect from your internal medicine physician?

Internal medicine is the branch and specialty of medicine concerning the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases in adults, especially of internal organs. Doctors of internal medicine, also called "internists", are required to have included in their medical schooling and postgraduate training at least three years dedicated to learning how to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases that affect adults. Internists are sometimes referred to as the "doctor's doctor," because they are often called upon to act as consultants to other physicians to help solve puzzling diagnostic problems. While the name "internal medicine" may lead one to believe that internists only treat "internal" problems, though this is not the case. Doctors of internal medicine treat the whole person, not just internal organs.

Caring for the whole patient

Internists are specially trained to solve puzzling diagnostic problems and handling severe chronic illnesses and situations where several different illnesses may strike at the same time. They also bring to patients an understanding of preventative medicine, men's and women's health, substance abuse, mental health, as well as effective treatment of common problems of the eyes, ears, skin, nervous system and reproductive organs.

Subspecialties of internal medicine

Internists can choose to focus their practice on general internal medicine, or may take additional training to "subspecialize" in one of 13 areas of internal medicine, generally organized by organ system. Cardiologists, for example, are doctors of internal medicine who subspecialize in diseases of the heart. The training an internist receives to subspecialize in a particular medical area is both broad and deep. Subspecialty training (often called a "fellowship") usually requires an additional one to three years beyond the standard three year general internal medicine residency. (Residencies come after a student has graduated from medical school.)

In the United States, there are two organizations responsible for certification of subspecialists within the field, the American Board of Internal Medicine, and the American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine.

The following are the subspecialties recognized by the American Board of Internal Medicine[1].