General medicine
General medicine is the branch of medicine that is practised by physicians and describes internal medicine applicable to adults. It should be considered as a distinct speciality, separate from the other main specialities of surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, psychiatry, and pathology.
General medicine includes many subspecialities, including chest (respiratory) medicine (lungs), cardiology (heart and blood vessels), gastroenterology (gut), endocrinology (glands, such as thyroid or adrenal gland), nephrology (kidneys), rheumatology (bones and joints), etc. Consultant physicians often practise in general medicine but with a special interest in one of the subspecialities, or they may practise only in their subspeciality.
General medicine covers a huge range of illnesses and diseases and there are, therefore, a very large number of potential areas that can involve clinical negligence.
News
Consultant cardiologist misdiagnosed businessman’s heart condition
A substantial settlement has been awarded to a man whose wife died after undergoing a liver biopsy at the Churchill Hospital, Oxford
The clinical negligence department at law firm Leigh Day & Co, has obtained a substantial settlement for a client whose post-operative care was mishandled.
Hospital A&E admits liability in failure to diagnose an aortic aneurysm. The man's widow was represented by Henry Dyson, specialist clinical negligence solicitor at Leigh Day & Co Solicitors