title: [Internal medicine and cardiology, internists and cardiologists].
abstract: A retrospective on the development of internal medicine as a base from which other specific fields of medicine, including cardiology as one of the largest, branched as consequence of technological progress and transformation from an empirical to a scientific discipline. Similar to the internal medicine tree, cardiology also branches into a number of subspecialities. This is because no one human brain has a capacity to remember and know everything. This has also resulted in a segregation of the operational curricula of internal medicine physicians and cardiologists. However, a close collaboration of all the disciplines is essential as it is the very same patient who is the focus of them all.
authors.affiliation: I. interní kardio-angiologická klinika Lékarské fakulty MU a FN u sv. milos.stejfa@seznam.cz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stejfa
mesh_terms: D002309:Cardiology; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008511:Medicine