Prevention First - A Primary Care Physican

Prevention First is a physician practice that takes a proactive approach to treatment by helping patients create healthy lifestyles and prevent illness. These preventive tools include general physicals, weight management consulting, health risk assessments and diagnostics, including bone densitometer testing, cardiac stress tests, vision and hearing tests, and heart rhythm monitoring.

What We Do
People are often frustrated with the fact that health care is expensive and sometimes not very effective. That is because the current system is based on damage control rather than on prevention first. Prevention First is a physician group that believes the best way to practice medicine is to partner with patients for the benefit of health and activity, rather than the disability and pain associated with sickness management. That’s the problem. The solution has never been more clear — Prevention First.

According to research, pain is the symptom that drives most people to see a doctor. Unfortunately, by the time health problems manifest themselves as pain or some other symptom, sometimes the physician is unable to achieve the best clinical outcome possible for the patient. We have learned from experience that there is a better way.

Prevention First is a physician group that believes the best way to help patients is to detect health problems EARLY before they become serious — to have a relationship based on HEALTH rather than sickness. For example, research has shown that most types of cancer can be treated successfully IF they are detected early on, usually before symptoms even present themselves. The same goes for heart problems, which can progress for years without noticeable symptoms until a catastrophic heart attack occurs. But how can you achieve early detection? This is the quandary and problem with the way our health care system is structured. It is based on damage control rather than on PREVENTION FIRST.

This can include acting as your personal physician to help you maintain a strong, healthy heart, avoid common ailments like the flu and infection, detect cancer quickly in order to defeat it, as well as improve your appearance through diet and exercise counseling. Recognizing that people are living longer and healthier lives, we also have the most advanced skin care laser technology in the DFW region. This new laser technology works invisibly BENEATH the surface of the skin to remove wrinkles, acne, age spots and other skin problems — all WITHOUT significant side effects.

Prevention First is your physician partner in health. We can serve as your personal physician or provide an annual physical that quickly checks all your body’s systems to give you a clean bill of health. We can serve patients in a variety of ways: as a physician resource, as well as a one-time referral for specialized services.

How We See It
Most of the time, when someone schedules a doctor’s appointment, they are already experiencing symptoms of some kind. Although the Prevention First team is competent and able to help these patients embark on their journey to recovery, the ideal situation is one in which this detour is avoided altogether. That’s why Prevention First is both our name and our philosophy of care. We underscore prevention methods just as strongly as we focus on treating diseases.

An Emphasis on Patient Education
In pursuit of the best outcome for each patient, Prevention First offers guidance for patients navigating through the vast array of treatment options available, including complementary and alternative medicine. We can help provide an open-minded perspective that is also based in scientific research, to help you avoid health scams.

Patient education enables consumers to make the smartest health care decisions. Our Web site serves as a helpful resource by providing information about specific conditions and prevention methods, in addition to various information about our practice. With all the information available on the Internet today, it can be difficult to determine fact from fiction, which is why we make sure our Web site contains updated, reliable content.

Providing Quality Care
Staying current with the latest medical developments and findings assures that the care you receive is up-to-date and proven to be safe and effective. At Prevention First, we will continue to accumulate expertise and services related to a variety of health concerns for the greatest benefit of each patient.

Another key element of care patients should always receive is respect and courtesy. This guarantees a satisfying, productive visit, especially when reciprocated. It is important to Prevention First staff to provide helpful, responsive service to patients. Our comfortable, pleasant office environment helps make each patient’s experience a positive one. For the highest level of convenience, we offer first-floor access and curbside parking, office-wide wireless Web access and satellite TV.

Looking Ahead
The Prevention First team strives to become the premier medical practice in the area. By constantly evaluating and adapting our practice procedures, we are able to best meet the needs of a growing and evolving patient population. Staying current with the latest medical developments and findings assures that the care you receive is up-to-date and proven as safe and effective. At Prevention First, we will continue to accumulate expertise and services related to a variety of health concerns for the benefit of each patient.

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