Doctors of Internal Medicine, (also known as "Internal Medical Doctors", "Internists" and "General Internists") deal with the internal organs, mainly heart, lungs, glands, kidney, stomach, and intestines. Internists are basically General Practioners (GP’s) but have much more training in the things they do, and do not deliver babies, perform surgery, or treat infants and children under 12. Because there are few General Practioners left in NewYork City, the Internist has become the family doctor ("family physician" or "family practitioner"), or in medical jargon, the Primary Care Physician.
Internists who "sub specialize" in a particular area of internal medicine may be referred to by several terms, including "medical specialist".
There are several subspecialties of internal medicine, which include, but are not limited to:
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Adolescent medicine
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Allergy and immunology
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Cardiology (heart)
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Endocrinology (diabetes and other glandular disorders)
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Gastroenterology (colon and intestinal tract)
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Geriatrics (care of the elderly)
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Hematology (blood) Infectious disease
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Nephrology (kidneys)
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Oncology (cancer)
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Pulmonology (lungs)
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Rheumatology (arthritis)
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Sports medicine
Hercules Medical is a full service medical office with a unique concept: the medical specialists come to the patient. This gives our doctors the advantage of knowing results of the medical specialists' consultations immediately, and our patients the advantage of not having to run all over NYC. We have in house:
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Internists
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Cardiologists
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Endocrinologist
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Gastroenterologist
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Gynecologist
In addition, we have immediate access to Chiropractors, Dermatologists, Radiologists, Orthopedists, Podiatrists, MRI, CAT Scans, Mammography, and Urology, including an exciting new type of prostate sonography that may prove more valuable for early detection than PSA (which we do in-house, of course).
Our office which is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, is fully equipped to perform the following tests:
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ECG
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X-Rays
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Ultrasound, including echocardiography, thyroid sonography, abdominal, pelvic, soft tissue sonography, venous sonography for phlebitis
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All lab testing. Basic results (CBC, chemistries, cholestrol)available immediatley
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CMT (weight reduction testing) and a nutritional weight control program
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Stress testing
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Holter monitoring for arrythmia and palpitations
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Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
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Colonoscopy
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Gastroscopy
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Pap testing
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Colposcopy
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Cryosurgery
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Non-invasive autonomic nervous system monitoring
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ABI-vascular-arterial testing
All our doctors are Board-Certified, and our chief sonographer is a PhD. More important, they are selected not just for their competence, but more important for their friendliness, compassion, and belief that the old-fashioned trust of a patient in his physician should never be dishonored.
In America, medicine today is based on “crisis-intervention”, doing nothing until a health problem explodes, and then treating a medical disaster that could easily have been prevented. This is driven by HMO’s, which do not maintain health, but rather seek to maximize shareholder profits by denying medical care whenever possible, or making patients jump through hoops to get it. Hercules Medical participates in no HMO's, so no one tells our medical doctors what we can or can’t do, enabling our patients to receive high quality health care without being rushed.
If you have any health insurance with out-of-network benefits (ask us, we’ll check) we can help you. We accept any plan that has out-of-network benefits, and we will accept assignment in all instances, so our patients do not have to lay out large sums of money and wait months for reimbursement. Providing medical care is our goal, not getting rich. In fact, long-term patients who are laid off and lose their health insurance are usually treated free until they get a new job. In addition, we accept credit cards, and no-interest financing is available for those who qualify.
Hercules Medical is the only medical practice we know of that employs an experienced patient coordinator, who acts as the patients advocate to ensure that nothing that will benefit the patient is omitted, and tries to minimize the patient's cost, both for medical care and medications.
We believe strongly in preventive medicine, and employ effective stop-smoking, nutrition, and weight reduction programs. We pay careful attention to preventive and maintenance programs for high blood pressure, diabetes, prostate cancer, colon cancer, and ulcers. We are thorough, and we miss nothing. However, we must have a responsible and cooperative patient. Don’t call us if you don’t care – we’re not magicians. Moreover, don’t call us if all you want is an antihistamine for your cold – you can get that at a drugstore.
Patients who come to our medical practice place their trust in us, and we do not shirk that responsibility. If you have a health problem and do not yet know it, we will find it. Each and every new patient gets a comprehensive medical history evaluation and complete physical check up, and whatever testing is indicated by the findings.
Hercules Medical offers immediate appointments where necessary. It is inconceivable to us that a patient is told that there is a three-week wait when he or she is sick now.
We can accommodate the following languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese, Hebrew, Russian, Arabic, Tagalog, Italian, and Jamaican.
Give us a call and You might, for the first time, actually enjoy visiting the doctor.