services
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Services:
Treatment of acute issues for established patients, by appointment.
Women’s specialty health, including treatment and prevention, birth control and fertility, gender transitioning, pelvic floor, sexual and menstrual/menopause health.
Men’s specialty health, including prevention, fitness, stress management, gender transitioning, aging and sexual health.
Child/adolescent care, including newborn home visits and breastfeeding help, well-baby care (I’m a vaccine-friendly doctor), developmental exams, required physical exams, teen fitness and self-esteem, parent-child mediation.
Housecalls when medically necessary, as you or your family need them.
Referral to specialist caregivers whenever appropriate, and coordination of your care across specialties.
Individualized wellness, prevention, and health maintenance planning, for infants, kids, adults, and older folks.
Life-change coaching, including weight loss, nutrition, smoking cessation.
Lifestyle approaches to chronic conditions, such as cardiac and cancer risk factors.
Stress management and psychological issues, such as anxiety, insomnia, depression, or eating problems.
Group services as needed – for example, Diabetes Group; Quit Smoking Group; Chronic Pain Group; Invisible Illness Group.
Referral to adult or pediatric hospitalist services if you need to go to the hospital, and coordination of your hospital follow-up care.
A word about chronic pain:
Many family doctors holistically manage chronic pain conditions. Although I often care for my established patients’ pain issues along with their other health conditions, I am no longer accepting new patients seeking pain management.
If you are unhappy with your current primary doctor’s management of your pain, please ask them to refer you to a Pain Specialist – not a second Primary Care doctor – for a second opinion.
I also discourage patients from traveling outside their home city for primary care. You need to have a doctor who knows you well, who knows your medical community well, and who is close at hand in case of emergency, and can visit your home if medically necessary. This is even more true for those of us who use medications that can impair safe driving, including medical marijuana through the OMMP – or who must depend on others for transportation.
