General Medical

General Medicine physicians manage all aspects of adult patients' general health care and provide seamless referrals to other Hurstville Private specialists. This method of comprehensive care ensures you get the care you need.

Hurstville Private General Medicine team focuses on:

• Comprehensive care for people with undefined symptoms — such as shortness of breath, chest pain, abdominal pain and back pain — who need help in diagnosing their illness
• Collaboration, which means we guide your care if you need the help of a surgeon or other physicians from Hurstville Private's team of specialists
• Comprehensive management of medical needs for hospitalised patients, including preoperative evaluation of medical risks before surgery

Our team of General Medicine Physicians includes;

Geriatricians - provide clinical and diagnostic services for older people with dementia, delirium, depression, falls and frailty, mobility and continence problems. Geriatricians provide holistic review of the appropriateness of all their treatments, as well as advice on planning future care, options for staying home or transitioning to residential care facilities and education and support for family and carers.

Respiratory physicians - diagnose and treat diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, lung cancer, acute and chronic respiratory failure, pulmonary hypertension, sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and narcolepsy, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung infections.

Endocrinologists - Endocrine conditions are often complex and involve many systems within the body treating a number of diseases and disorders, ranging from diabetes to thyroid disorders and cancers.

Infectious diseases physicians - treat, sexually transmitted diseases, viral infections, pneumonia, post-surgical infections, tuberculosis, meningitis, endocarditis, blood infections, parasitic diseases, and viral infections. Infectious disease physicians collaborate across specialties in treating and preventing infectious diseases.

Pain Physicians - Pain medicine experts offer services in prevention, evaluation, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation. They have a collaborative team with experts in Anaesthesiology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Neurology, Psychiatry and Psychology. These specialists develop individualised treatment plans, which may include drug treatment, pain rehabilitation and management, injection therapies, and implants to address complex and multidimensional pain syndromes.

Intensivists - The intensive care specialist has clinical skills that include the ability to recognise and manage the disturbances associated with severe medical, surgical, obstetric and paediatric illness and to diagnose and treat the conditions that cause them. This usually involves invasive and non-invasive diagnostic techniques, monitoring, and treatment modalities designed to support vital organs. The Intensivists provide a 24 hour service to the hospital for all critical patients.