Specialties

Acupuncture

Traditional Chinese medicine explains acupuncture as a technique for balancing the flow of energy or life force — known as chi or qi (chee) — believed to flow through pathways (meridians) in your body. By inserting needles into specific points along these meridians, acupuncture practitioners believe that your energy flow will re-balance.

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Allergy

Exaggerated or pathological immunological reaction (as by sneezing, difficult breathing, itching, or skin rashes) to substances, situations, or physical states that are without comparable effect on the average individual

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Allergy & Immunology
Alt Medicine

Emergency Medicine is a primary, or first-contact point of care for patients requiring the use of the health care system.
Emergency physicians are responsible for providing immediate recognition, evaluation, care, stabilization, to adult and pediatric patients in response to acute illness and injury.

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Anesthesiologist

A physician trained to give you anesthesia (pain medicine) and who cares for you before, during and after your surgery.

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Bariatric Surgeon

Weight loss is achieved by reducing the size of the stomach with a gastric band or through removal of a portion of the stomach or by resecting and re-routing the small intestine to a small stomach pouch

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Cardiac Electrophysiology
Cardiac Surgery

This includes surgeons who can be called cardiac surgeons, cardiovascular surgeons, general thoracic surgeons, and congenital heart surgeons.

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Cardiology

We know that the suffix -ologist refers to someone who studies some area. To that, we add cardio-, which comes from the Greek kardia, meaning “heart,” and we get “someone who studies the heart.” The actual study of the heart is called cardiology, with cardiologist coming along a few years later. Besides treating the heart, a cardiologist is also concerned with the circulatory system, including arteries and veins.

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Chiropractic Medicine

Chiropractic employs manipulation and adjustment of body structures, such as the spinal column, so that pressure on nerves coming from the spinal cord due to displacement (subluxation) of a vertebral body may be relieved.

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Clinical Psychology

Some of the more common disorders that might be treated include learning disabilities, substance abuse, depression, anxiety, and eating disorders.

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Clinical Social Work

Social workers who provide these services are required to be licensed or certified at the clinical level in their state of practice.

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Counseling

These professionals work with a variety of patients and may specialize in areas such as trauma, addiction, or youth services.

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Critical Care

Dental Public Health
Dentist

a person qualified to treat the diseases and conditions that affect the teeth and gums, especially the repair and extraction of teeth and the insertion of artificial ones.

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Dermatology

Sometimes also, cosmetic care and enhancement.Dermatology is the study of the skin.

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Emergency Medicine

It encompasses a unique body of knowledge as set forth in the “Model of the Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine.”

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Endocrinology

The common diseases and disorders of the endocrine system that endocrinologists deal with include diabetes mellitus and thyroid disorders.

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Endodontist

The word “endodontic” comes from “endo” meaning inside and “odont” meaning tooth. Like many medical terms, it’s Greek.

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Family Medicine

It is a specialty in breadth that integrates the biological, clinical and behavioral sciences. The scope of family medicine encompasses all ages, both sexes, each organ system and every disease entity.

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Functional Medicine

It treats the whole system, not just the symptoms.

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Gastroenterology

Gastroenterology is a subspecialty of internal medicine

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General Dentist
General Surgery
Geriatrics

It aims to promote health by preventing and treating diseases and disabilities in older adults. … However, geriatrics is sometimes called medical gerontology.

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Gynecologic Oncology
Gynecologist

The word “gynecology” comes from the Greek gyno, gynaikosmeaning woman + logia meaning study, so gynecology literally is the study of women.

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Hair Care

Hair care routines differ according to an individual’s culture and the physical characteristics of one’s hair.

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Hematology

Because of the nature of blood, the science ofhematology profoundly affects the understanding of many diseases.

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Holistic Medicine
Hospice and Palliative medicine
Hospitalist

Hospitalists are physicians whose primary professional focus is the general medical care of hospitalized patients. Their activities include patient care, teaching, research, and leadership related to HospitalMedicine.

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Housecalls

In some locations, families used to pay dues to a particular practice to underwrite house calls.

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Implant Dentistry

such as a crown, bridge, denture, facial prosthesis or to act as an orthodontic anchor.

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Infectious Diseases

Infectious diseases are disorders caused by organisms — such as bacteria, viruses,fungi or parasites.

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Internal Medicine

Physicians specializing in internal medicine are calledinternists, or physicians (without a modifier) in Commonwealth nations.

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Interventional Cardiology
Interventional Radiology

Marriage and Family Therapy

It is a branch of psychotherapy that works with families and couples in intimate relationships to nurture change and development.

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Maternal Fetal Medicine

Maternal–fetal medicine specialists are physicians who subspecialize within the field of obstetrics.

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Medical Genetics
Mental Health
Micrographic Surgery

Individual layers of cancer tissue are removed and examined under a microscope one at a time until all cancer tissue has been removed. Also called Mohs surgery.

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Naturopathic Medicine

Health through the use of therapeutic methods and substances that encourage individuals’ inherent self-healing. process.

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Neonatology

It is a hospital-based specialty, and is usually practiced in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).

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Nephrology

A physician who practices nephrology is called a nephrologist.

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Neurology

This includes the brain, the spinal cord, and the nerves.

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Neuroradiology

Including but not limited to the brain, spine, head and neck, interventional procedures, techniques in imaging and intervention, and related educational, socioeconomic, and medicolegal issues.

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Nuclear Medicine
Nurse Practitioner

Abbreviated NP. AnNP may be a primary, direct health care provider, and can prescribe medications. Some NPs work in research rather than in direct patient care.

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Nursing

a licensed health-care professional who practices independently or is supervised by a physician, surgeon, or dentist and who is skilled in promoting and maintaining health

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Nutritionist

It can also simply be a euphemism for a cook who works in a medical facility but who does not have extensive training in special nutritional needs.

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