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A team of Naples physicians at Advance Medical of Naples
Advance Medical of Naples offers family practice, urgent care, and occupational physicians. Advance Medical is a full-service clinic open 7 days a week and on most major holidays. The clinic provides prompt, professional and courteous service with extended hours for non-life threatening illness and injuries. Our primary care physicians in Naples are qualified to help patients from birth through geriatrics. In addition to our urgent care centers, our Naples doctors also offer family medicine and occupational medicine. The occupational medicine department in our Naples clinic offers area corporations pre-employment physicals to include DOT, FDLE, and Merchant Marine physicals, drug testing, drug screening, and treatment of work-related illness and injuries, and a full list of urgent care services to assist employers. For your convenience, Advance Medical can also provide generic in-house prescriptions of the most commonly prescribed medications.
Our Naples medical group and family practice offer:
- Naples radiology services
- Naples primary care and family practice physicians
- Physicians to diagnose flu and infectious diseases
- Naples doctors specializing in splinting and casting
- Naples pediatric doctors
- Non-emergency healthcare
- Naples Urgent Care Center
- After-hours walk-in facilities
- Full pharmacy
- Advanced medical care
For all non-life threatening illnesses, injuries and emergencies. Our medical center is staffed by a board-certified Naples urgent care/family practice physician.
How often should you see your Naples physicians?
How often should you come into Advance Medical of Naples for a check-up? Once a year? Every 6 months? Never? Most of you are pretty healthy and only show up for screening physical exams or aches and pains. Some of you may only come into our Naples Urgent Care walk-in clinic when you have the flu.
What if you had diabetes, coronary disease, hypertension, high cholesterol, and sleep apnea, but no symptoms to indicate any acute problems? You’d probably see one of our family practice physicians fairly routinely, and if needed, you would be referred to a specialist.
How do our Naples physicians know when to see you next? As a patient, you probably don’t put much thought into this and obediently comply with whatever scheduling recommendation you’re given. But ask yourself next time you see your Naples physician, “How does he/she know when to have me come back?” Is there some textbook somewhere, some set of guidelines that tells us how often patients with particular medical problems need routine follow-up?
The answer: Yes and no.
At Advance Medical, we have a few ground rules to take into consideration. First is that we encourage wellness through screening and physicals. We work in conjunction with our patients to educate and support a healthy lifestyle. If during a screening we detect a condition that needs to be treated, then the treatment plan is reviewed in detail with the patient and the care outline is reviewed and agreed upon during your visit. Before you leave our office you will have educational materials, a prescription if necessary, a referral to a dietician or for additional testing if needed, and a follow-up appointment. Why is it important to keep your follow-up visits? Everyone needs to be examined and followed if a condition or “disease” such as diabetes or elevated cholesterol are found. After all, don’t we all behave just a bit better if we know someone is watching? Isn’t staying up on a condition better than lapsing and allowing it to get out of control? Absolutely. So we work together and ensure your treatment is timely, your prescriptions are filled and you are well cared for.
In summary: How often should you be seeing your Naples primary care physician? It’s between you and one of our Advance Medical physicians or nurse practitioners in Naples. Just understand that none of this is written in stone and every patient is different.
We hope that Advance Medical becomes an option for you if you are researching physicians in Naples FL. Contact Advance Medical of Naples for more information on Primary care.