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Consult the Right Doctor for Health Problem



With advancements in the medical sciences, one of the challenges has been that many a times the patients are not sure which doctor they should consult for their health problem. This often leads to visits to many doctors before finding the right one. This becomes even more important if you happen to suffers from a rare disorder.

Most doctors practising in the community are either family physicians or specialists. The family physicians or primary care doctors generally treat routine ailments such as stomach upsets, cold, flu or minor wounds and also conduct regular check-ups. The specialists are specific to an organ or system of the body like a cardiologist for heart problems or a neurologist for brain related ailments.

Even among the specialities there can be a medical or surgical doctor for the same problem and consulting the right one can save time. One example could be consulting a nephrologist for an acute episode of pain due to a kidney stone, when you should be seeing a Urologist. Currently there are over 60 medical specialities with over 100 medical specialists in the medical field with there being many sub-specialities within a speciality.

This interactive calculator will help you find the right specialist for your medical condition and also helps you locate one nearest to where you live.

Specialities in the field of healthcare can be categorized into the following groups:


Doctors who are mainly physicians - example includes - General Physicians, Cardiologist, Nephrologist, Neurologist, Gasto-enterologist and Endocrinologists.

Doctors who are mainly surgeons - some example includes General Surgeon, Urologist, Orthopedicians, Neuro-surgeon and Cardio-thoracic Surgeon

Doctors who work as both physicians and surgeons - some examples are - Eye specialist, ENT specialist, Obstetrics and Gynecologist

Doctors who mainly do diagnostics and some of the examples includes pathologist, microbiologist, Geneticist and radiologist

Experts practicing in the medical field without a valid medical qualifications but who may have qualification from specialist societies include podiatrist, osteopaths, physiotherapist and Dieticians.

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