Too many people today feel that medicine has become a detached and impersonal experience. For that reason, I have affiliated with MDVIP, and their national network of physicians. I have never forgotten the words I learned early in my training: “To Cure Sometimes, to Relieve Often, to Comfort Always.”

From the first time I heard these words, almost 30 years ago, I knew they would be my guide in providing care for my patients. While this may seem like an old-fashioned notion, I consider it to be sorely absent in the modern practice of medicine. Diagnosing and treating illness is much more than ordering tests and administering medications. Treating the whole person, as well as the disease, is supposed to be the central tenet of medicine.

Being a female internal medicine physician provides me with the opportunity to practice medicine following the guiding principle that the patient is the center of all that we do. This is what sets apart the MDVIP experience from the traditional primary care practice. Prompt and on-time appointments, excellent educational resources, and individualized treatment plans developed for every patient, means that you benefit from care that helps keep you well, not just treat you when you are ill. You get old-fashioned personal attention as well as the opportunity to use some of the newest technology. Most importantly, you will feel like a person, not a part on an assembly line. 

For me, taking care of patients is both a calling and a privilege. I look forward to partnering with you and I invite you and your family to join my practice.