Question: Are there any countries on the planet that don't practice general medicine?
About the article "Medicine", section "Institutions".

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The followings are some major medical specialties that do not directly fit into any of the above mentioned groups.
"Anesthesiology" (also known as "anaesthetics"): concerned with the perioperative management of the surgical patient.
The anesthesiologist's role during surgery is to prevent derangement in the vital organs' (i.e.
brain, heart, kidneys) functions and postoperative pain.
Outside of the operating room, the anesthesiology physician also served the same function in the labor & delivery ward, and some are specialized in critical medicine.
"Dermatology" is concerned with the skin and its diseases.
In the UK, dermatology is a subspecialty of general medicine.
"Emergency medicine" is concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of acute or life-threatening conditions, including trauma, surgical, medical, pediatric, and psychiatric emergencies.
"Family medicine", "family practice", "general practice" or "primary care" is, in many countries, the first port-of-call for patients with non-emergency medical problems.
Family physicians often provide services across a broad range of settings including office based practices, emergency room coverage, inpatient care, and nursing home care.
"Obstetrics and gynecology" (often abbreviated as "OB/GYN" (American English) or "Obs & Gynae" (British English)) are concerned respectively with childbirth and the female reproductive and associated organs.
Reproductive medicine and fertility medicine are generally practiced by gynecological specialists.
"Medical Genetics" is concerned with the diagnosis and management of hereditary disorders.
"Neurology" is concerned with diseases of the nervous system.
In the UK, neurology is a subspecialty of general medicine.
"Ophthalmology" exclusively concerned with the eye and ocular adnexa, combining conservative and surgical therapy.
"Pediatrics" (AE) or "paediatrics" (BE) is devoted to the care of infants, children, and adolescents.
Like internal medicine, there are many pediatric subspecialties for specific age ranges, organ systems, disease classes, and sites of care delivery.
"Pharmaceutical medicine is the medical scientific discipline concerned with the discovery, development, evaluation, registration, monitoring and medical aspects of marketing of medicines for the benefit of patients and public health.
"Physical medicine and rehabilitation" (or "physiatry") is concerned with functional improvement after injury, illness, or congenital disorders.
"Podiatric medicine" study of, diagnosis, and medical treatment of disorders of the foot, ankle, lower limb, hip and lower back.
"Psychiatry" is the branch of medicine concerned with the bio-psycho-social study of the etiology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cognitive, perceptual, emotional and behavioral disorders.
Related non-medical fields include psychotherapy and clinical psychology.
"Preventive medicine" is the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease.
*"Community health" or "public health" is an aspect of health services concerned with threats to the overall health of a community based on population health analysis.
*"Occupational medicine'"s principal role is the provision of health advice to organizations and individuals to ensure that the highest standards of health and safety at work can be achieved and maintained.
*"Aerospace medicine" deals with medical problems related to flying and space travel.  
The Cochrane Collaboration Complementary Medicine Field explains its "Scope and Topics" by giving a broad and general definition for complementary medicine as including practices and ideas which are outside the domain of conventional medicine in several countries and defined by its users as preventing or treating illness, or promoting health and well being, and which complement mainstream medicine in three ways: by contributing to a common whole, by satisfying a demand not met by conventional practices, and by diversifying the conceptual framework of medicine.
Proponents of an evidence-base for medicine such as the Cochrane Collaboration (founded in 1993 and from 2011 providing input for WHO resolutions) take a position that "all" systematic reviews of treatments, whether "mainstream" or "alternative", ought to be held to the current standards of scientific method.
In a study titled "Development and classification of an operational definition of complementary and alternative medicine for the Cochrane Collaboration" (2011) it was proposed that indicators that a therapy is accepted include government licensing of practitioners, coverage by health insurance, statements of approval by government agencies, and recommendation as part of a practice guideline; and that if something is currently a standard, accepted therapy, then it is not likely to be widely considered as CAM.
That alternative medicine has been on the rise "in countries where Western science and scientific method generally are accepted as the major foundations for healthcare, and 'evidence-based' practice is the dominant paradigm" was described as an "enigma" in the Medical Journal of Australia.
Critics in the US say the expression is deceptive because it implies there is an effective alternative to science-based medicine, and that "complementary" is deceptive because the word implies that the treatment increases the effectiveness of (complements) science-based medicine, while alternative medicines which have been tested nearly always have no measurable positive effect compared to a placebo.
Some opponents, focused upon health fraud, misinformation, and quackery as public health problems in the US, are highly critical of alternative medicine, notably Wallace Sampson and Paul Kurtz founders of Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine and Stephen Barrett, co-founder of The National Council Against Health Fraud and webmaster of Quackwatch.
Grounds for opposing alternative medicine which have been stated in the US and elsewhere are: that it is usually based on religion, tradition, superstition, belief in supernatural energies, pseudoscience, errors in reasoning, propaganda, or fraud.
that alternative therapies typically lack any scientific validation, and their effectiveness is either unproved or disproved.
that the treatments are those that are not part of the conventional, science-based healthcare system.
that research on alternative medicine is frequently of low quality and methodologically flawed.
that where alternative treatments are used in place of conventional science-based medicine, even with the very safest alternative medicines, failure to use or delay in using conventional science-based medicine has resulted in deaths.
that methods may incorporate or base themselves on traditional medicine, folk knowledge, spiritual beliefs, ignorance or misunderstanding of scientific principles, errors in reasoning, or newly conceived approaches claiming to heal.
Paul Offit has proposed four ways in which "alternative medicine becomes quackery":  "...by recommending against conventional therapies that are helpful."
"...by promoting potentially harmful therapies without adequate warning."
"...by draining patients' bank accounts..."  "...by promoting magical thinking..."  
The "Oxford Textbook of Medicine" covers the scientific aspects and clinical practice of internal medicine and its subspecialties.
It offers practical guidance on clinical management and the prevention of disease.
Throughout the book, basic science and clinical practice are integrated, and the implications of research for medical practice are explained.
Traditional specialty areas in clinical medicine are covered, and there are sections on the following; bioterrorism and forensic medicine; medical disorders in pregnancy; travel and expedition medicine; nutrition; the use of stem cells; regenerative medicine; and psychiatry and drug related problems in general medical practice.
The fifth edition of this book is different from previous editions, with each chapter including a chapter summary, and all illustrations and photographs now in full colour. 
Internal medicine is the medical specialty concerned with the diagnosis, management and nonsurgical treatment of unusual or serious diseases, either of one particular organ system or of the body as a whole.
According to some sources, an emphasis on internal structures is implied.
In North America, specialists in internal medicine are commonly called "internists".
Elsewhere, especially in Commonwealth nations, such specialists are often called physicians.
These terms, "internist" or "physician" (in the narrow sense, common outside North America), generally exclude practitioners of gynecology and obstetrics, pathology, psychiatry, and especially surgery and its subspecialities.
Because their patients are often seriously ill or require complex investigations, internists do much of their work in hospitals.
Formerly, many internists were not subspecialized; such "general physicians" would see any complex nonsurgical problem; this style of practice has become much less common.
In modern urban practice, most internists are subspecialists: that is, they generally limit their medical practice to problems of one organ system or to one particular area of medical knowledge.
For example, gastroenterologists and nephrologists specialize respectively in diseases of the gut and the kidneys.
In the Commonwealth of Nations and some other countries, specialist pediatricians and geriatricians are also described as "specialist physicians" (or internists) who have subspecialized by age of patient rather than by organ system.
Elsewhere, especially in North America, general pediatrics is often a form of Primary care.
There are many subspecialities (or subdisciplines) of internal medicine: *"Angiology/Vascular Medicine" *"Cardiology" *"Critical care medicine" *"Endocrinology" *"Gastroenterology" *"Geriatrics" *"Hematology" *"Hepatology" *"Infectious diseases" *"Nephrology" *"Neurology" *"Oncology" *"Pediatrics" *"Pulmonology/Pneumology/Respirology" *"Rheumatology" Training in internal medicine (as opposed to surgical training), varies considerably across the world: see the articles on Medical education and Physician for more details.
In North America, it requires at least three years of residency training after medical school, which can then be followed by a one- to three-year fellowship in the subspecialties listed above.
In general, resident work hours in medicine are less than those in surgery, averaging about 60 hours per week in the USA.
This difference does not apply in the UK where all doctors are now required by law to work less than 48 hours per week on average.