Did you know that Family Practice is a medical specialty requiring additional training, like other specialties–such as Surgery, Gastroenterology or Cardiology? The focus of Family Practice is primary care and preventive care. To become family doctors, following medical school, we had years of additional training in multiple disciplines, including pediatrics, obstetrics, adult medicine, critical care, psychiatry, geriatrics, and emergency care. As family doctors, we evaluate your health in the context of your family, personal relationships, community and work.
When you visit us, we listen to you, evaluate your symptoms, your body and your story; then we determine a diagnosis and develop a treatment plan. Simple problems may take a single visit. Complicated problems may require more.
As family doctors, we’re committed to your overall health. In addition to any problems you may bring, we’ll help you prevent others. We’ll ask about habits (smoking, drinking, exercise), life patterns (sleep, diet, mood), and protocols for prevention (vaccines, lab tests, procedures). By paying attention to how you live and promoting continued healthy choices and disease prevention, we’ll help you conquer unhealthy habits and prevent unhappy outcomes such as heart disease and diabetes.
While family doctors can manage nearly every problem a patient presents, we also know when to ask other specialists for help on your behalf. We maintain close connections with the whole medical community to ensure proper referral for specialized problems.
Here’s a specific list of what we can do for you as family doctors:
- Newborn and pediatric well child care
- Adolescent medicine
- Adult preventive care and annual exams
- Sports and DOT physicals
- Acute illness and injury care
- Pap smears, pelvic and breast exams, IUDs
- Acne, skin care and procedures
- Phlebotomy and routine lab tests (strep test, mono, pregnancy, urinalysis)
- Immunizations and joint injections
- Chronic illness management, including arthritis, asthma, COPD, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, overweight, and others
- Mental health care, such as depression and anxiety
We’ll also consider alternative care where appropriate in developing a treatment plan for you.
Dr. Rebecca Hoffman MD
Dr. Richard Carroll, DO
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