arteries are the blood vessels carrying oxygenated blood and veins carry deoxygenated blood. arteries carry blood from heart to rest part of the body while veins bring blood from rest of the body to the heart.
As your One Medical primary care providers (PCPs), we take your well-being seriously. With an emphasis on family practice and internal medicine, we address all your essential health needs by: Making prevention and wellness a priority.
The difference concerns the age of patients each treats, the environment of practice, the range of services they provide, and the specialization opportunities available to each field. Both family practice and internal medicine offer primary care medicine with a lot of similarities and differences. 1  The main difference between these two categories is the age of the patients that they are trained to take care of. 2  Internal medicine providers only handle adult patients.