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Department Hours
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5:00 pm | 8:00 am
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Please Note: I work in the Martinez Medical Offices and not in the Kaiser Permanente facility located in Park Shadelands, Walnut Creek.
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About Me
I've been a physician with Kaiser Permanente since 1988. My father is a physician too, so I guess it's in my blood. It has always seemed natural to me to work with people who need help understanding their illness. The satisfaction of helping in this way can be thrilling. My wife is a musician and a piano teacher. She loves her students just as she loves teaching them piano. I think that I get a reward from my work as a doctor that is similar to what a teacher might get from an eager audience. The etymology of the word doctor comes from the Medieval Latin word for teacher. To me, that's not an accident.
As a hospitalist I am able to see our members when they need me the most. It is also often the time they are most open to looking at things in new ways, to taking new directions. These times of transition are frequently painful, but surprisingly often they are still hopeful, positive experiences for everyone involved. Being with a member and their loved ones as fear is transformed into understanding and then resolve is, more than anything else, what keeps me whistling while I come to work in the morning.
I hope you never have to meet me professionally, because that's likely to be in the emergency room after the emergency room physician has decided you're too sick to go home. I'd rather meet you out on the bike trail or at the swimming pool. But if you need me I'll be eager to help and I hope I can do a good job for you.
Stay well, and eat your apples.
My Credentials
| Rush Medical College At Rush University, Chicago, IL |
| UC Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA |
| UC Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA |
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