General Overview of the Service
Routine care can be checkups, physicals, health screenings, and care for health problems like diabetes, high blood pressure, and asthma. Your health practitioner can provide routine care for these and many more medical problems.
How the Service is Done
The service is provided in our clinic, with a local anesthetic used when necessary.
We care for a wide variety of routine health problems including diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, thyroid disease, obesity, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, minor surgical procedures, mole removal, wart removal, abscess drainage, and others.
What Methods are Used
Diabetes – Blood glucose testing, blood pressure check, foot check, weight check; review of self-care plan, and glucose self-testing.
High blood pressure – Blood pressure check; review self-care.
High cholesterol – Blood test for cholesterol; review self-care.
Cough – Dry cough (without phlegm) and wheezing may be caused by a cold, sinus infection, acute bronchitis, pneumonia, whooping cough, asthma, and environmental allergies.
Thyroid disease – Monitor thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) levels.
Obesity – Check weight, cholesterol, and blood glucose. Review self-care weight loss plan.
COPD, asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema – Perform pulmonary function test. Review self-care plan.
Minor surgical procedures – Perform as indicated.
Skin tag, mole, and wart removal – Cutting, freezing, or burning to remove growths. Your health practitioner will assess any moles before removal, to ensure they are not cancerous. In that case, a biopsy is necessary and the mole will be left intact.
Abscess drainage – Opening and draining the abscess.
Possible Side Effects
These exams have no side effects.
Next Steps
Your physician will provide next steps.