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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:03:43 -0400
To: Bovik@CS.CMU.EDU
From: Karen L Van Dusen <kvd+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Doctor Recommendations?

Excerpts from cmu.cs.general: 17-Apr-97 Doctor Recommendations? by Jim
Skees@cs.cmu.edu 
>   It has been a while since Bovik got a fresh
> set of doctor recommendations.  Time to re-fill.
> 
>   My wife is looking for a doctor who is willing
> to explain things and answer questions.  It would
> also be good if he or she was on the Preferred Blue
> provider network.  I will forward all responses to Bovik.

Peter and I both *really* like our doctor, Doug McKeag.  He's
affiliated with the Sports Medicine program at UPMC, but is
also a practicing family physician.  His emphasis on sports
medicine has made him very focused in "minimal intervention"
sorts of therapies, which we both appreciate.

We've not had a need to see him for internal medicine sorts of
things, but I expect that he's excellent there as well.  He's
patient, very friendly, and acts like he has all the time in the
world for you. (one of our recent appointments took >30 minutes!)
He's also an excellent listener and questioner; he elicits more
information from his patients than most doctors I've met.

Caveats: Although he does sports medicine on Baum Blvd, you have
to go to his Sewickley office for normal family physician things.
It's quite a ways, but worth it for us so far.  We do have a concern
about the distance, and about his availability; since he's also
on the faculty at UPMC, I think he sees patients in Sewickley only
a few days a week.  However, we've also had a bit of experience
with others in his practice, and they've been very good as well.
In an emergency, I think things would work out fine.

His # at the Sewickley office: 741-4044

-Karen


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