Internal medicine, explained in words you can repeat at home.
Consultant Physician · Uttara, Dhaka
I am a consultant physician at Uttara Adhunik Medical College Hospital, and I keep a private chamber three evenings a week. Internal medicine means the problems that do not belong neatly to one organ — fever nobody can explain, tiredness, blood pressure that will not settle.
Most of my job is listening long enough to notice the thing that does not fit. The tests come after that, not before.
Fever, infection, blood pressure, cholesterol, and the long list of small things that turn out to be one thing.
Day-to-day control, medication reviews, and the yearly checks that catch damage early.
Asthma, COPD and the cough that has lasted longer than a cough should.
A proper annual review for people over forty, with the results explained rather than handed over.
Three doctors in two years told me it was stress. He asked one question none of them had and ordered one test.
Patient, UttaraHe writes the plan on paper in Bangla so my mother can read it herself.
Patient's son, Mirpur