Definition Of

Family Medicine is the medical specialty which provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and the family. It is the specialty which emphasizes the science and the art of medicine. The scope of Family Medicine encompasses all ages, both sexes, each organ system and every disease entity.

What do we do?

Family Physicians treat patients as people.

Family Physicians promote health.  We emphasize preventative medicine. 

Family Physicians treat illness. 

Family Physicians manage chronic diseases.

Family Physicians can care for you in the office, hospital, rehabilitation facility, or home.

Why are we special?

Family Medicine is a three-dimensional specialty, incorporating the dimensions of (1) knowledge, (2) skill, and (3) process.  While knowledge and skill may be shared with other specialties, the Family Medicine process is unique.  At the center of this process is the patient-physician relationship with the patient viewed in the context of the family.  It is the extent to which this relationship is valued, developed, nurtured and maintained that distinguishes Family Medicine from all other specialties.