Early in my career, my two-year-old daughter heard a colleague call me, “Doctor.” I'll never forget the chuckle that came out of that kid. I have often wondered how prescient that chuckle was. As a practicing hospitalist for most of my career, I could understand what she took to be a joke: what was I really accomplishing for my patients? Attentive hospital medicine is important in healthcare, but I became interested in what could help keep patients out of the hospital in the first place. I received a lot of internal reward when I would explain to some patients, for what seemed like the first time, how changes in their diet could help better control their blood sugar or how to better breathe with chronic congestive heart failure by just tweaking part of their daily routine.
With that in mind, I opened my private internal medicine practice and more recently affiliated with MDVIP. I believe a key to healthier living and trying to stay out of the hospital is a strong physician-patient relationship, one that focuses on you and more personalized care for better health and well-being. Prevention and sustained improvement in medicine are my passions. I'm very proud of my practice in beautiful Carson City. Let’s get healthier and try to stay that way!
My MDVIP-affiliated practice offers services, including comprehensive, advanced health screenings and diagnostic tests, that go far beyond those found in concierge medicine practices. I also offer same-day and next-day appointments with minimal wait times. And the MDVIP model gives us more time to discuss not only your test results, but also answer your questions more in-depth and get to know each other better.
In case you're wondering, my now teenage daughter still finds time to chuckle at her dad from time to time, only now it’s with a chorus of four siblings.
