Physician Department

Physician Department

Physicians are highly trained specialists who provide a range of non-surgical health care to adult patients. They care for difficult, serious, or unusual medical problems and continue to see patients until these issues have resolved or stabilised. Much of their work occurs in hospital settings, and many Physicians also consult in outpatient clinics.

Their breadth of expertise differentiates Physicians from other specialists who limit practice to a single body system or a narrow field of knowledge.

Physicians act as consultants, usually seeing patients referred by other doctors (often a patient’s practitioner). Their assessment is comprehensive and considers the whole patient.

Global approach: Assessments are holistic, enabling detection of issues and diagnostic possibilities that might otherwise be missed.

Complex care: Physicians are trained to manage complex illness where diagnosis may be difficult. Their broad training covers problems affecting multiple body systems and the social and psychological impact of disease.

Procedures: They perform a range of medical procedures to diagnose and manage severe and complex conditions.

Diagnosis: They understand the usefulness, limitations, and costs of diagnostic tests, using them safely and effectively to investigate challenging problems.

Treatment: They evaluate evidence and industry claims critically, manage complex polypharmacy, and make balanced treatment decisions for patients with multiple conditions.

Pre- and post-operative assessment: Physicians review patients before surgery, advise on risk, recommend optimisation, and assist with postoperative care and complications.