Cardiology is the medical speciality dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and disorders of the heart. Cardiologists are specialists in diseases of the heart. The biggest area of heart disease treated is coronary artery disease e.g. angina. Also treated are abnormal heart rhythms, heart failure, high blood pressure and some rarer conditions.
The service offers expert medical care for the population of the West Midlands and beyond, providing specialist services such as transplantation and aortic surgery.
Neurology is the branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of disorders of the nervous system. The nervous system is a complex, sophisticated system that regulates and coordinates body activities. It has two major divisions:
Central nervous system: the brain and spinal cord
Peripheral nervous system: all other neural elements, such as eyes, ears, skin, and other "sensory receptors"
COMPLETE, thoroughgoing physical examination of every patient who presents himself for medical advice would undoubtedly result in fewer diagnostic errors and more effective treatment. Complete examination, however, includes a great many procedures requiring special laboratory equipment available only in large private clinics, co-operative laboratories, and hospitals, while most patients report to their physician at his office. The cost of special examinations done singly is so great in the aggregate as to discourage the patient, and the physician's alternative is to limit his use of laboratory methods to those most likely to yield positive findings in a given case, a practice utterly opposed to the basic idea of complete physical examination.:
Dentistry, also known as Dental and Oral Medicine, is a branch of medicine that consists of the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders :
Ophthalmology includes subspecialities which deal either with certain diseases or diseases of certain parts of the eye:
Accident & emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of patients who present without prior appointment; either by their own means:
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