| Date: September 15, 2011 | Media Contact: | Chuck Moran |
| | | Pennsylvania Medical Society |
| For Immediate Release | | (717) 558-7820 |
(Philadelphia, PA) Physician members of the Pennsylvania Medical Society will answer questions and discuss medical concerns with local residents anonymously and free of charge on Tuesday, September 20, as part of the state society’s public service program “Docs on Call.” The program will air on CBS-3 from 5:00 pm until 6:30 pm that evening.
Since it was started several years ago, “Docs on Call” has drawn on hundreds of physicians across Pennsylvania who donate their services to help make a difference in the communities where they live and practice. Locally, member physicians will answer health-related questions and will offer information on free- and low-cost health clinics to those without medical insurance or without access to personal physicians. While the doctors will provide guidance to callers, the phone sessions are not meant to replace office visits. Physicians answering the phones will not diagnose conditions or prescribe specific treatments.
“Docs on Call” gives us another way to help patients who otherwise might avoid or have no access to a physician,” says Ralph Schmeltz, MD, FACP, FACE, president of the Pennsylvania Medical Society.
“It is a tremendously rewarding program for us and gives our members yet another way to reach out to patients, in the name of better health.”
Local physicians volunteering for “Docs on Call” include:
Bucks County Medical Society: Robert Danoff, DO, Family Medicine
Delaware County Medical Society: Joyann Kroser, MD, Gastroenterology
Montgomery County Society: Robert Bailey, Jr., MD, Ophthalmology; Allen Ho, MD, Ophthalmology; Kimberly Jones, MD, Psychiatry; Mark Pyfer, MD, Ophthalmology
Philadelphia County Medical Society: Judith Adams, MD, Internal Medicine; Benjamin Braslow, MD, General Surgery; Glenn Cooper, MD, Cardiology; Michael DellaVecchia, MD, Ophthalmology; Richard Kaplan, MD, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation; Maureen Kelly, MD, Fertility; Lynn Lucas-Fehm, MD, Radiology; Alex Levin, MD, MHSc, Pediatric Ophthalmology; Kurt Miceli, MD, Psychiatry; Curtis Miyamoto, MD, Radiology/Oncology; Carl Norden, MD, Infectious Disease; Kevin Robinson, MD, Cardiology; Lawrence Robinson, MD, Public Health and General Preventive Medicine; Carol Shields, MD, Ophthalmology; George Spaeth, MD, Ophthalmology; Suzanne Steele, MD, Family Medicine; Susan Taylor, MD, Dermatology.
The Pennsylvania Medical Society was founded in 1848, and today, the physician members continue to focus on better health for all Pennsylvanians. To learn more about the Pennsylvania Medical Society, visit its website at www.pamedsoc.org or its patient website at www.myfamilywellness.org.
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