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All internists are at heart a strange mix of both detective and engineer. We are attracted to Internal Medicine in the first place because we are detectives, we want to solve problems, and the problems we want to solve are what makes people sick, because it hurts us when someone suffers, when someone presents with a complex of symptoms that causes them pain. We cannot help ourselves, when faced with someone who is hurting we cannot help but respond, to investigate. “Why is this happening?” we ask ourselves, late at night, laying bed, why? Driving into work early in the morning, while it is still dark, tell me you have not done this; of course you have, you are in Internists. This drives you, it makes you crazy, the not knowing, not able to understand why. This is the heart of an Internist.

But there is another part to your heart, if you are an Internist. This is the part that, when you finally understand the reason for the suffering, you want to attack it, you want to fix it. Once you understand the reason for the problem, you and I cannot rest until it is fixed. Read More...

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Jamie Conti, M.D., named chair of the UF College of Medicine department of medicine

COM Celebration of Research

Celebration of Research

The UF Department of Medicine Celebration of Research took place on October 25, 2018. This event was an opportunity to collaborate and reflect on the quality of research conducted within the Department […]

Dr. Borna Mehrad, Chief, Pulmonary Medicine, College of Medicine meeting with patient and collegues.

UF Health joins Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Care Center Network

University of Florida Health has been designated a member of the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation’s Care Center Network, making it one of just 60 medical centers nationwide with the highest level of expertise […]

Paul Skelton, MD

Chief Internal Medicine Resident Dr. Paul Skelton Inducted Into Prestigious Medical Honor Society

Alpha Omega Alpha, the prestigious national medical honor society, inducted faculty, residents and students from the UF College of Medicine as new members during a banquet held March 15 at […]

Gold Humanism Honor Society Student Inductees

UF Department of Medicine Faculty and Internal Medicine Residents Inducted Into The Gold Humanism Honor Society

The 18th annual Chapman Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society banquet and induction ceremony, held May 3 in the George T. Harrell, M.D., Medical Education Building, honored 26 medical […]

Ryan Nall, MD, Hippocratic Award

Dr. Ryan Nall chosen as 2018 UF College of Medicine Hippocratic Award Winner

Dr. Ryan Nall was chosen as the 2018 recipient of the UF College of Medicine Hippocratic Award, a prestigious honor chosen by the UF College of Medicine Class of 2018.

Dr. Keith March

UF launches new Center for Regenerative Medicine

The University of Florida has launched a Center for Regenerative Medicine to develop lifesaving therapies “to heal the body from within” using stem cells that repair damaged tissue and organs. […]

Researchers awarded $2.7 million grant to fight deadly fungal infection

We constantly inhale Aspergillus mold spores, which live both indoors and outdoors, without becoming ill. But for people with a weakened immune system, a fungal infection caused by the spores […]