Is internal medicine about consulting every medicine specialty and being a secretary?

On my IM rotation, the primary IM team just consults cards, nephro, pulm on almost everyone. I felt like they were just taking the recommendations from those teams and implementing that into the plan, but not actually making their own plan. Where is all the cool detective work done by general internists? I almost feel like if I did IM as a specialty then I would need to do a fellowship so I actually get to do stuff instead of acting like a secretary and coordinating discharges and letting... Is internal medicine about consulting every medicine specialty and being a secretary?
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