Category talk:Medical specialties

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Perhaps "specialties" of medicine? Is specialism even a word?--ZayZayEM 08:51, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Specialism is a word, see http://www.onelook.com/?w=specialism&ls=a Is it an American and British English differences? Petersam 00:40, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] No "medical specialty" article

There doesn't seem to be an article about medical specialties, which seems unusual since it is a large category. -- Kjkolb 09:13, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

There are individual articles on specific medical specialties; I think you're asking why there isn't one entitled Medical specialties? I suspect because there would not have been much to say that was not said in the individual articles (although now that I think of it, and excellent article might be written on the history and development of medical specialization in America, Western Europe and elsewhere that would go nicely in an article under just that title). However, there is a brief article on medical specialists which I have placed in this category. Best—encephalonέγκέφαλος  09:45:08, 2005-09-06 (UTC)

[edit] All but surgeons?

It seems a bit odd to me to have this category include all physician specialties except surgical specialties - they are no less "medical specialties" than radiology or pathology for instance. Since this page seems to be using "medical" in the broad sense of "medical school" (not the "internal medicine" sense), Cat:surgical specialties should probably be a subcategory of this one. Also, a few surgical specialties (otolaryngology and urology) are already included on this page.-Rustavo^{Talk/Contribs} 04:37, 22 April 2007 (UTC)