IM General is a small reference site about the practical side of general internal medicine — the specialty most adults interact with when they see "a regular doctor." It does not tell you what to do about your health. Instead, it explains how the system around adult primary care works: what an internist actually is and how the role differs from a family physician, how national preventive-screening recommendations are organized and graded, how to look up the official FDA label for a medication, and what it takes to show up to an annual checkup genuinely prepared.
The most useful thing here is the Checkup Prep Score, a short self-check that walks through the things clinics consistently wish patients brought: a current medication list, records, family history, written questions, and the basic paperwork. Score yourself before your next visit and you'll know exactly what's still missing.
Every guide links to primary sources — federal health agencies and the internal medicine specialty society — so you can go straight to the original material rather than taking our word for it. For anything involving a symptom, a diagnosis, or a treatment decision, those pages and your own clinician are the right destination; this site's job is to make sure you arrive at that conversation organized and able to follow it.