About Internal Medicine

Having a regular Primary Care Physician remarkably reduces non-urgent use of the emergency department regardless of insurance status or health status. Patient satisfaction is an integral part of quality health care and that continuity of care through having a regular Primary Physician remarkably increases patient satisfaction.

Primary Care Physician has a key role to detect pre-cancerous lesions and cancers at their early stage through timely running cancer-detecting screening tests. Most cardiovascular events like heart attack and stroke are preventable through modifying their risk factors and that Primary Care Physician has a major role in detection and modifying those risk factors and to run timely diagnostic tests to prevent the events.

Primary Care Physician has a significant role in counseling regarding various health hazards including Smoking through using pharmacological and non-pharmacological remedies.