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About Me

Hi I’m Blake Wolf Montana MD, FACEP. I’m an emergency medicine physician. I chose Emergency Medicine for a number of reasons including lifestyle, personal temperament, as well as a good match with my skills. Originally, it was far from my first choice. However, as part of a naval internship, all the physicians were required to do a rotation in Emergency Medicine. I was not particularly looking forward to mine – in fact I was dreading it! However within the first week I was realizing that it was not as bad as I had feared. By half way through, I was actually enjoying myself, and as the end of the rotation neared, I realized that I was having more fun then I ever had in medicine before and that I should find a way to do a second month and consider eventually pursuing a residency. (Which of course I subsequently did!)

I think one of the things I like best is the variety and the feeling of being prepared to handle whatever comes through those doors. It’s a bit like being the country doctor of lore – but with the back up of all those high-tech supports at my beck and call. I also like the immediate gratification available with Emergency Medicine. Someone comes in with a complex facial laceration - you sew it up – it looks better! Another person has bad abdominal pain – you establish that appendicitis is extremely likely – they are off to surgery! Next a budding gymnast comes in with a bent and broken arm– you make it straight again and arrange orthopedic follow up! It’s all good. Finally, as strange as it sounds, I like the pace and the unpredictable often chaotic aspects of the ED environment.

I did my formal Emergency Medicine training at Ohio State University; a regional trauma center associated with its own poison control center and life flight program. Upon graduation I ran the Emergency Department of Twenty-nine Palms Naval Hospital. After Twenty-nine Palms, I began work at Desert Hospital, a regional trauma center in the Palm Springs area.

Practicing Medicine at Kaiser Permanente

I started working for Kaiser Permanente in 1999 as a part time Emergency Physician at Kaiser Vallejo, and then started full time at North Valley Kaiser Permanente in 2001. The main reason I enjoy working at Kaiser Permanente is that it provides me an environment where I can practice the highest quality Emergency Medicine coupled with reliable follow up availability. I also really value that at KP I can concentrate solely on my clinical role without being distracted by business issues, etc. As noted above, prior to joining Kaiser, I worked in a number of significantly varied and well respected healthcare environments. In retrospect, none of these lives up to my Kaiser experience. The bottom line is that I have chosen to work at Kaiser Permanente because I have found no better place to practice Emergency Medicine industry wide. I am able to provide better, more comprehensive care for my patients here then anywhere else I’ve worked. That’s important to me and I think our patients are beginning to realize it as well, which makes it all the better. I would not work anywhere else in the USA!

My Credentials

Medical school	University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
Internship	Naval Medical Center, San Diego, CA
Residency	Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH
Board certification	Emergency Medicine, American Board of Emergency Medicine

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