What is primary care medicine?
Primary care medicine is the basis for receiving general medical health care. Your primary care doctor is specially trained to diagnose health issues, provide comprehensive care for health conditions, and to screen and educate patients to prevent health problems from developing.
Your primary care physician can:
- Distinguish acute health issues from pressing issues that require additional attention
- Recognize symptoms and screen for serious health conditions
- Provide education and preventive principles to reduce health conditions from developing
- Perform physicals and health screenings to manage your health
Primary care physicians often have long-term relationships with their patients with the goal of helping them reach optimal health.
What services are provided by primary care doctors?
The physicians at Doctors of Bellevue-Redmond are specialists in internal medicine. The majority of their patients are between 18 and 45 years of age, but they care for adults of all ages, and Dr. Bardman also treats children.
They provide the following primary care services:
- Disease prevention and health maintenance, including annual physicals and immunizations
- Women’s health care, including PAP smears, birth control, morning-after pill, and pregnancy tests
- Green card (immigration) medical examination
- Heart problems and high blood pressure diagnosis and treatment
- Cholesterol management
- Depression, anxiety, and stress management
- Diseases of the stomach, liver, gallbladder, and colon
- Diabetes diagnosis and treatment
- Thyroid problems
- Diseases of ear, nose, and throat
- Cancer screening
- Skin conditions and minor surgery
- Headache diagnosis and treatment
- Car accident and work-related trauma
- Sexual dysfunction, including treatment of sexually transmitted disease (STD) and impotence
Doctors of Bellevue-Redmond also provide alternative therapies and lifestyle treatments including herbal medicine, massage therapy, and diet and exercise counseling for weight management or obesity.
Which diagnostic equipment is available through primary care doctors?
Whether you need a physician for a routine checkup or to diagnose a complex medical condition, Doctors of Bellevue-Redmond can address your diagnostic needs, including:
- On-site EKG and 24-hour EKG monitoring
- Lung diseases and pulmonary function testing
- Laboratory tests for blood, urine, and stool screening
If advanced diagnostics are needed, your doctor can provide a referral for an ultrasound, X-ray, CT scan, or MRI scan. Many of these tests are available with same-day scheduling if you require urgent medical attention.
Doctors of Bellevue-Redmond also offer evening and Saturday office hours to accommodate same-day appointments for urgent care.
To learn more about primary care medicine offered by Doctors of Bellevue-Redmond, call today or schedule an appointment online.
