Internal Medicine:

Northwestern Medicine board-certified internists offer a full spectrum of services for adults ages 16 and older. Our internal medicine physicians help coordinate your care, ensuring your overal medical needs are covered between your primary and specialty caregivers.

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Hospital Medicine:

Hospital medicine is a fast-growing medical specialty, comprised of physicians whose primary role is to provide comprehensive medical care to hospitalized patients. These physicians, called hospitalists,help patients through the continuum of hospital care, often seeing patients in the emergency department—and, if admitted, following them into the acute care or critical care unit and organizing post-hospital care.

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Patient ratings and reviews are posted for Northwestern Medicine clinicians who see patients in the outpatient setting and have received at least 30 patient experience surveys. Northwestern Medicine clinicians will not have ratings or comments available until the minimum number of surveys are received from patients, or if they are an independent clinician. Northwestern Medicine clinicians will also not be included if their hospital, practice, or department is not yet participating in this initiative.

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Vestaen Balbuena, MBA reported no external professional relationships for calendar year 2021.

External Professional Relationships

Pharmaceutical, device, and biotechnology companies frequently collaborate with basic scientists and physicians within an academic medical center to help advance science and improve patient care. These relationships are important in achieving scientific breakthroughs and in establishing the effectiveness and safety of promising new therapies.

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