First internist examination

Most often, you should go to an internal medicine examination after your family medicine doctor refers you to it. The most common reasons why patients visit their family medicine doctor are chest pain and tightness, a feeling of shortness of breath that first appears during exertion and later at rest, long-lasting and unexplained cough, abdominal pain, changes in urination as well as blood in the urine. weakness and inexplicable fatigue that is stronger than before, blood in the stool and changed stool color, jaundice, long-lasting headaches and loss of concentration...

All the listed symptoms can be associated with certain diseases of the internal organs, whereby patients are usually referred to an internist after a basic treatment that includes blood sampling and non-specific tests. Most often, an internist's examination assesses whether someone has arterial hypertension (high blood pressure), coronary disease, blood vessel diseases (the presence of peripheral arterial disease is most often examined), obstructive pulmonary diseases such as COPD and asthma, diabetes, other endocrinological diseases (diseases thyroid, adrenal glands or pituitary gland which are the most common), kidney disease, disease of the urinary tract and prostate.