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Internal & Family Medicine

Internal medicine has three components: training in a acute care, exposure in all the areas of medicine including subspecialty areas and becoming an educator and coordinator as an ambulatory primary care component, explains Dr. Rosendo Collazo, Internal Medicine Physician with Baptist Health Primary Care. The specialist says a primary care physician tries to educate the patient to understand the whys of the patient’s conditions. Also primary care physicians coordinate the care the patient needs.

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