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internist /in·tern·ist/ (in-ter´nist) a specialist in internal medicine.
in·ter·nist (n-tûrnst)
n.
A physician specializing in internal medicine.

internist
[intur′nist, in′turnist]
Etymology: L, internus, inward
a physician who specializes in internal medicine.

internist [in-ter´nist]
a specialist in internal medicine.

internist
a specialist in internal medicine.

internist program
a postgraduate training program suitable for an internist.

internist
Medtalk A practitioner of general medicine is certified by the Am Board of Internal Medicine–ABIM, who has had 3 yrs of formal training in internal medicine. Cf Family practitioner, Intern.


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quot; Internists tend to work within a hospital setting, because their patients often have serious illnesses that require diagnosis and/or treatment through complex means that require specialized medical equipment and/or therapies.
He has claimed that he warned Smith's internist, Sandeep Kapoor, that the level of medications she was taking was potentially fatal.
Virtually every hospital or large medical group in the United States would be happy to add a family physician or general internist," Mr.
 
 
 
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