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Educational Background

MD – University of St. Eustatius, Netherlands, Antilles

Residency – MUSC, Charleston, SC

Certifications & Affiliations

American Board of Family Medicine

Hospital Affiliations

Summerville Medical Center, Summerville, SC

Trident Regional Hospital, Charleston, SC

My Philosophy on Patient Care:

Simply put, I treat my patients the same way I'd like to be treated. I treat them as if they were family. The care I give is the same I'd give to my own mother and father, brother and sister. 

A patient of mine once asked me why I decided to become a physician. I'd have to say my journey started on those sleepy-eyed mornings when my father drove me to grade school. He'd turn to me as I took a hesitant step from the car.  

He'd tell me, "Son…make someone feel good today."

My journey continued on those achy jointed mission trips to Mexico when my mother taught me there's no greater act of human kindness than to lower oneself in the act of washing another's feet, to give one's self to serving others. I think my patients appreciate me not because I immediately have all the answers, but because they know I have a passion for finding them, and I won't stop until I have found them. Thoroughness, attention to detail, listening to my patients, and striving to truly understand what they're telling me is what I pride myself on. I treat my patients the way I'd like to be treated. I feel that I excel in empathizing. I feel that I excel at putting myself in my patient's shoes.

I became a physician to touch a life, to change a life, to serve, to heal and to provide comfort.  These are my passions and they are what drive me.

Every day when I go to work, in a way I'm just doing what my dad always told me. "Son…Make someone feel good today."