Infectious Diseases
What is Infectious Diseases?
An infectious disease physician is a career that focuses on all parts of the body by diagnosing and treating illnesses transmitted by bacteria, pathogens, and viruses.
Some of the diseases they treat are the following:
HIV Medicine
Travel & Tropical Medicine
Infection Prevention
Transplant Infectious Disease
COVID-19
Often times, they perform physical examinations and also work together with radiologists and the laboratory to further more understand the patient's disease and ways for treatment.
Infectious Disease and its connection to Public Health
Infectious disease physicians are reponsibile for prevention of these diseases as often times the way these diseases spread is through human contact and interaction. Because of this, part of their career is working those who work in public health.
Alongside working with public, they also prioritize in advocating communicable diseases and public health. They have a major role in both clinical and research aspects of infectious diseases.
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Quick Facts about Infectious Disease: Additional Aspects in Medicine
Aside from diagnosing and treating patients, infectious disease physicians additionally have responsibilities in the following
Researching communicable diseases
Advocating for disease prevention and its strategies
Analyzing population data and community health data
Determining appropriate public health initiative for the community
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