Medicine

The doctors of the practice clinic for Diagnostics and Preventive Medicine in Bornheim near Cologne, Bonn and Düsseldorf are specialists for health checks and combine internal Medicine with Naturopathy, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture.

The word medicine comes from Latin. The person who practiced this healing art was called a medicus.

Medicine can best be seen as a general term for the healing arts as a whole. It encompasses health care as well as diagnostics and therapy.

Initially, medicine was practiced by priests and shamans and, in the Middle Ages, also by traveling craftsmen.

So-called human medicine is the one that deals with people. From a sometimes whole variety of symptoms, it is necessary to Diagnosis which is a prerequisite for a promising therapy.

The primary treatment goals in medicine are the prevention of Diseases (e.g. through a health check) or their complications, as well as the cure of illnesses or just the relief of symptoms (palliative medicine). We speak of rehabilitation when it comes to recovery after illnesses. The large number of illnesses and their treatment options has led to medicine being divided into numerous specialist areas.

There are almost 100 different specialist titles.

Examples of this would be specialists in surgery, vascular surgery, cardiac surgery, etc. or specialists in internal medicine, endocrinology, diabetology or gastroenterology.

As important as specialization may be in individual cases and as sound training is of great importance, we believe that it is also important for a Doctor It is particularly important to understand the patient as a whole.

We consider the general practitioner internist to be particularly suitable for this task. The use of modern medical technology and the simultaneous general practitioner care are not in conflict with each other for the doctors at the Bornheim practice clinic. In their opinion, only through long-term care of the patients and through knowledge of the psychosocial environment can the Disease often only be properly classified.