Internal medicine

Posted by Kenneth J. Gallant, MD on December 01, 2008 at 09:17

I am an MD and have been practising for 25 years and have been keeping my ears open longer than that about the etymology of "internal medicine", the most common branch of medicine. It is the medical, not surgical, treatment of adults. But where does it come from?

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