When my children were young, they repeatedly asked, “Dad, what does ‘internal medicine’ mean?” The term “internal medicine” is not intuitive to what we do as internal medicine physicians and continues ...

Internal medicine represents the largest primary care specialty, with 41.4% of all primary care physicians practicing in the field, according to new data from KFF. In contrast, geriatrics represents ...

A lack of consensus on who counts as a primary care physician can affect reimbursement and workforce pipelines, and as demand for healthcare grows, the debate over what specialties fall under primary ...