Appendicitis : Doctor Specialties

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Call your local emergency department or emergency medical service (such as 911) if: Your pain is severe, sudden and sharp; You have a fever along with your pain; You are vomiting blood or have bloody diarrhea; You have a rigid, hard abdomen that i...
Source:ADAM
Date:April 17, 2008
Appendicitis is a medical emergency. A doctor should be called immediately if appendicitis is suspected so that children can receive prompt medical treatment before perforation occurs. Parents who suspect that their child has appendicitis should n...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
The American Board of Emergency Medicine awards board certification to doctors who pursue three or more years of additional training in Emergency Medicine. Doctors who specialize in Emergency Medicine must make life and death decisions and take actions to prevent disability in the pre-hospital setting and in the hospital.
Source:HealthLine
Date:February 20, 2008
The American Board of Medical Specialties recognizes Family Medicine as a distinct discipline requiring an additional three years of training for doctors who wish to become Board Certified in this field. Family Medicine doctors are usually primary care providers (PCPs) [formerly general practitioners, or GPs] for the entire family.
Source:HealthLine
Date:February 20, 2008
Choose a specialist who has performed many of these procedures and who is board certified in his or her particular specialty...Many disease processes and surgical procedures have support groups to assist patients...See also choosing a primary care provider ...
Source:ADAM
Date:July 25, 2007
General surgery is the treatment of injury, deformity, and disease using operative procedures. Purpose General surgery is frequently performed to alleviate suffering when a cure is unlikely through medication alone.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Definitions Finding a surgeon refers to the process of choosing a doctor with specialized training in one or more branches of surgery to perform a specific procedure. It is almost always done in the context of elective surgery rather than emergency operations.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
After a doctor completes medical school and is licensed to practice medicine, the physician may pursue a rigorous 3 year training program in Internal Medicine. After passing an examination and completing the requirements, the doctor is eligible to become Board Certified in Internal Medicine.
Source:HealthLine
Date:February 20, 2008
Harvard Medical School doctor addresses the question of whether a woman should see a gynecologist or an internist beyond her childbearing years.
Source:StayWell
A physician who specializes in the treatment of children from birth through adolescence. A pediatrician is a physician who has taken extra training in the development and diseases of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults through age 21.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Detailed information on pediatricians and what formal education is required
Source:StayWell
Detailed information on choosing a pediatrician
Source:StayWell
American pediatrician 1870-1960 A portrait of Owen Wilson. In the preface of " The Care and Feeding of Southern Babies, " Wilson said that other similar works focused on childrearing in cooler climates, and therefore were inapplicable to infants in the southern United States.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Well Being
Detailed information on questions to ask your child's physician about cancer
Source:StayWell
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