The honest reasons why this doctor chose internal medicine
As an internal medicine physician, the #3 question people most often ask me is why I chose to be an internist. (The top two being “What is internal medicine?” and “What’s this thing growing on my genitals?”) So I thought that I would pull back the curtain and show how I made my decision.
According to Wikipedia, “Internal medicine or general medicine (in Commonwealth nations) is the medical specialty dealing with …


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