Internal medicine is the type of medical care that deals with adult health, and pulmonology is one of its many fields. Pulmonologists focus on the respiratory system and diseases that affect it.
Pulmonology/ Chest Medicine / Respiratory Medicine is a subspecialty of Internal Medicine that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with illnesses that affect the lungs and breathing. A Pulmonologist has expertise in the evaluation of patients with symptoms like breathlessness, cough, chest pain, wheezing, chest tightness, snoring & sleepiness, coughing out blood as well as abnormalities of the chest x-ray, chest CT scan and other chest imaging studies.
The respiratory system includes your:
Mouth and Nose
Sinuses
Throat (pharynx)
Voice box (larynx).
Windpipe (trachea)
Bronchial tubes
Lungs and things inside them like bronchioles and alveoli