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Autumn Symposium of the corporate members of the DGIM

freedom of therapy in internal medicine particularly important



Wiesbaden - Disease management programs (DMP) and
prescribing Management Act (AVWG) limit, according
a German Society of Internal Medicine (DGIM) the medical
freedom of treatment. The is the concern of the interior compared to medicine, to treat sick people
to the best available scientific knowledge. As part of the Autumn Symposium of the
corporate members discussed the limitations of therapeutic freedom DGIM
and explains why this is just
in internal medicine so crucial.



"In no other area of medicine is the variety of diseases
larger and mostly complex than in the interior," says Professor Dr.
med Ulrich Robert Fölsch, Director of the Department of General Internal Medicine
at the University Hospital Schleswig- Holstein, Campus Kiel. The doctor of internal medicine purchases
for extensive and comprehensive knowledge. For
internists are often diverse diseased, compared with multi-morbid patients
. "These people need to be individualized and not a
standardized medicine," says Professor Fölsch.



crop in what form and structured treatment programs for
AVWG the necessary freedom of treatment, discuss Professor Fölsch
find other issues with other experts from medicine, health, industry and
law in a subsequent press conference on 18
October 2007 in Wiesbaden.