Are all visits the same?
 
  Yes, basically there is 3 types

Complete Physical

Is the “once year” visit when we focus in the screenings appropiate to you: cholesterol check, screening for breast, colon, prostate cancer, etc. . We also see if you need a shot and review your chart to be sure we are doing every thing we need to. Dietary and  healthy life style counseling is usually provided. We usually allocate 30 minutes for this.

Routine office visit

The purpose of the office is to check on chronic problems such as diabetes, high blood pressure, ADD or to follow  up after an admission to the hospital or after you were diagnosed with an acute problem (pneumonia, UTI) that needs to be check

Acute, Same Day or Sick visit

We schedule it when you have an acute problem (a cold, fever, a skin infection, cough, UTI etc) and we only talk about that particular concer. We give you a 15 min appointment but we may need to “squeeze you” in between patients.