A tale of two medicines: why India should replace ‘general medicine’ with ‘internal medicine’
Walk into any major teaching hospital in India and look at the signboards. You are likely to find Cardiology, Neurology, Nephrology, Gastroenterology, Endocrinology departments—and, somewhere among them, a General Medicine. Now travel outside India and ask for the corresponding specialty. In most countries and in much of international medical literature, you will be directed to…