0 a doctor who specializes in identifying and treating diseases that do not need surgery (= cutting into the body) --
1 a doctor who specializes in internal medicine (= medicine dealing with illnesses inside the body) --
Hence, it is important not to limit the concept of palliative care to the prerogative of oncologists alone, but to also encompass family physicians, geriatricians, cardiologists, and internists (2).
This number was chosen because each group of reports was read by six experts (three internists and three radiologists), and therefore four represents a majority opinion.
The information from the patient was supplemented by collateral information from programme staff, medical records, the programme internist and physician's assistant and from previous treating professionals.
Moreover, psychiatrists, family medicine practitioners, obstetrician/gynecologists, and internists were more likely than other respondents to have changed their clinical behavior.
The panels for adults included an anesthetist, a surgeon, an internist, a general practitioner, and an epidemiologist.
However, the relative homogeneity in the use of the term among internists, surgeons, and gynecologists indicates that it is primarily a hospital jargon.
Transplantation has led the way by bringing together surgeons, nurses, social workers, ethicists, chaplains, psychologists, and internists to care for patients needing transplantation.
The authors believe that in resolving ethical difficulties in medical practice, internists entertain competing goals that they do not always achieve.
