What Is an Endocrinologist?
Reviewed: Dr. Gromatzky
3. Endocrinologist
An endocrinologist is somebody that specializes in the field of endocrinology. Endocrinology is the study of hormones in the body, the endocrine system and, by extension, complications that occur as a result of issues with the endocrine system.
The endocrine system is quite large, and there are numerous medical conditions that can result from a patient that has hormonal imbalance problems. As such, an endocrinologist will often have a considerably varied role to perform. Depending on the symptoms, they will need to perform thorough physical examinations on their patients while also undertaking tests to see what the cause of the problem is.
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