- Chronic lung diseases cause as much as 9 percent of disability in Poland. Lung diseases are second in order as causes of sickness absence. This is a huge public health problem," says Dr. Malgorzata Czajkowska-Malinowska, president of PTChP, in an interview with Medexpress. What path has pneumonology traveled over these nine decades?
- Pneumonology is still perceived in the consciousness as a little-known, even camouflaged specialty, and certainly undervalued and underfunded. I, on the other hand, would like to say that it is a specialty that has come a very long way - from phtysiatry dealing with tuberculosis to a full-fledged field of internal medicine," emphasizes Dr. Malgorzata Czajkowska-Malinowska.
As he adds, it is a very broad specialty. It covers lung diseases broadly, but also deals with intensive care of patients with respirato...
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