Carl Eagleton is an experienced Auckland trained endocrinologist & specialist physician working at Allevia Specialist Centre, Auckland and Greenlane hospitals. Carl has been the Head of Department of Endocrinology Department at Auckland City Hospital and prior to this has been the Clinical Director of General Medicine at Auckland & Middlemore Hospitals and Head of Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes at Wellington Hospital.
Carl has a broad experience in internal medicine including the management of patients with multiple medical co-morbidities. In addition to his appointments in New Zealand he has been a visiting medical specialist across the Pacific.
Carl welcomes referrals covering all aspects of endocrinology, thyroid cancer, radioiodine, diabetes and internal medicine.
What is Endocrinology ?
Endocrinology is the science of hormones. Hormones are chemicals produced by one part of the body and act upon another part.
Your endocrinologist is a specialist doctor interested in diseases that affect your hormones. The major areas endocrinologists work in are:
- diabetes
- osteoporosis & Paget’s Disease
- thyroid diseases
- sex hormone imbalances
- disorders of the pituitary gland.
What is General Internal Medicine?
General Iinternal Medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases affecting the internal organs of the body in adults.
Specialists in this field are called specialist general physicians. They are doctors who have trained in various specialties such as diseases of the heart, lungs, brain and other organs. Often people have more than one part of the body involved in an illness or the exact cause of symptoms is not clear. The General Physician is an expert in diagnosing what is wrong and managing illnesses that are complex.
