Specialty Emergency Medicine Urgent Care Facility San Jose Medical Center Emergency Department Address Emergency Dept. - Urgent Care Clinic 250 Hospital Parkway, 1st Floor San Jose CA 95119 Map & Directions Telephone Non-urgent voicemails: 408-972-7449 Advice (24 hours)/Messages: 408-972-6140 Office: 408-972-6065 E-mail your doctor View your preventive services

Welcome to Our Emergency Department:

I have been in full-time emergency practice for 25 years. I was attracted to this specialty because of the seriuosness of the emergency medical problems. It gives me great satisfaction to help people who are critically ill or injured.

About Me:

I first began my emergency medicine career in Hollister, CA. Through the years I have practiced in Gilroy, Santa Cruz, and Stanford. I have been a Kaiser Permanente physician since 1998, and I am board-certified in emergency medicine.

My Philosophy of Care

Good and effective health care requires common sense, good judgement, and vigilance, by both the patient and the provider. Diagnosis and treatment needs to be realistic. There has to be a balance between the medical technology and the needs of the whole patient, both the physical and the mental.

My Recommendations:

As an emergency physician, my expertise is not only in therapeutic procedures, but also, in the expert knowledge that my colleagues and I bring to the department. It is my advice that any concern that a patient has regarding a possible emergency merits contacting us. I would rather be able to reassure you that you are not having an emergency rather than see anyone suffer the consequences of a delay in treatment.

My Credentials

Medical school	State University of New York Health Science Center At Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Internship	Charity Hospital, New Orleans, LA
Residency	St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York, New York, NY
Residency	Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY
Board certification	Emergency Medicine, American Board of Emergency Medicine

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