Healthcare Practices
Respiratory Medicine (Chest Medicine)
Chest physicians specialise in diseases of the lungs and disorders of breathing.
Conditions diagnosed and treated by chest physicians include asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, COPD, lung cancer, tuberculosis as well as pulmonary (lung) fibrosis.
Chest
physicians also diagnose and treat certain occupational lung conditions such as
those related to asbestos exposure and occupational asthma.