Specialist’s services

Croatian physicians conduct patients according to their rights in independent and professional manner and provide them with the modern methods of treatment. Physicians can provide you with:

• Examinations to determine the existence or nonexistence of physical or psychological illnesses, damages or anomalies
• Assessment of patients current condition using proper diagnostic instruments and procedures
• Treatment and rehabilitation
• Disease prevention, health education and counseling
• Reproductive health care as well as help during childbirth
• Medication proscriptions and other medical products and accessories
• All sorts of valid confirmations and experts opinions
• And other services according to regulations

In order to provide stated and other services in the field of medicine one requires a diploma from faculty of Medicine and a number of other confirmations and licenses issued by authorized institutions.

A person who has a license to practice medicine can work either in his own private practice or as an employee in a health care institution. Croatian physicians must plan and conduct all medical procedures such as prevention, diagnosis and treatment in the way that they will preserve human dignity, personal integrity and patient’s rights such as right to be informed and right to decide on their own behalf.

Any personal information that a patient may reveal to his physician is a part of doctor – patient privilege and can be reveled to others only with the consent of patient, or in case of minors, his/her parent/s or guardians. If a patient has certain psychological incapability’s, consent is to be acquired form his/hers close family members, guardian or legal representative.
Upon patient’s request, physician is obligated to show him/her medical documentation regarding his/hers past diagnosis and treatments.

Physician is authorized to issue a physician’s certificate only after he examined the patient, had access to his/hers existing medical documentation and after he determined the existence of a certain condition based on existing facts.

Here are some examples of medicine specialties:

• Internal Medicine
• Angelology
• Endocrinology and Diabetology
• Cardiology
• Gastroenterology
• Hematology and Oncology
• Nephrology
• Pneumology – pneumoftiziology
• Rheumatology
• Geriatrics
• Neurology
• Pediatrics
• Phychiatry
• Infectious Diseases
• Dermatology
• Physical Therapy
• Gynecology
• General surgery
• Maxillofacial surgery
• Child surgery
• Orthopedics
• Neurology
• Urology
• Oncology
• Ophthalmology
• Anesthesiology
• Radiology
• Transfusion medicine
• Nuclear Medicine
• Clinical cytology
• Pathology
• Forensic Medicine
• Medical microbiology
• Medical biochemistry
• Oral Surgery
• Analytical Toxicology
• Sports Medicine
• Epidemiology
• Family medicine

These medicine specialties comprehend a number of subspecialties which are stated in catalogue croatiamedicine.com along side the physician’s name.

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