Stanford Family Medicine

Welcome to Our Clinicc

Stanford Family Physicians is a group of eleven board-certified family physicians located at Hoover Pavilion, located across from Bloomingdale's at the Stanford Shopping Center, at 211 Quarry Road.

What We Do

As family physicians, we see patients from newborns to seniors, women and men. We diagnose and treat about 90 percent of the problems that people have, from back pain, ear infections and rashes to diabetes and heart disease. Several of us do normal obstetrical care and deliveries at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. When specialist care is needed, we will make the appropriate referral and continue to coordinate care. We also do office procedures, including minor surgery and colposcopy.

If you are hospitalized at Stanford Hospital, one of our colleagues in Stanford Medical Group will usually will be either the physician in charge of your care (for example, if you have a medical problem such as pneumonia) or a consulting physician (for example, if you have surgical problem). Stanford Hospital is an internationally respected teaching hospital, and residents and medical students will usually participate in your care as well.

Working Together

One of the greatest rewards of practicing medicine is being able to get to know each patient as an individual, and to work with each patient to help solve whatever problem she or he has. To get the most out of our time together we would like to tell you a few points we try to keep in mind when we see you, and to offer a few suggestions for you to consider.

Your Office Visit

  1. Give you time to tell me why you are here and what your concerns are.
  2. Explain to you what we have learned from taking a history, performing a physical exam, or interpreting lab tests.
  3. Explain what our understanding of your problem is, what treatment we recommend and why. Explain why we do or don't order tests or make referrals.
  4. Listen to your ideas about what is happening and what should be done.
  5. Clarify arrangements for follow-up, either by phone or return visit.

Suggestions

  1. Let the receptionist know what you want to cover with me when you schedule our appointment so he or she can allocate sufficient time.
  2. Identify the problems or concerns you would like addressed during our visit. It may help to write them down. Bring up these issues at the beginning of the visit so we can pace the visit to cover them all. If there is not time during the scheduled visit to cover everything, we may need to decide which the most important topics are for this visit.
  3. Ask questions. That is how we all learn and it helps avoid misunderstandings.
  4. Let us know if you don't agree with a diagnosis of your problem or suggestions for treatment. Identifying differences will improve our understanding each other and therefore lead to better treatment decisions and results.

We look forward to working with you!

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