Looking after tomorrow, today.
Routine, age-appropriate visits to catch issues early.
Physicals are visits where the doctor focuses on preventative care — things that are important for the future. This may include watching for developmental delay, obesity, vaccines, and screening for cancers. If you have active concerns, please schedule a separate visit for those. For example, if you're worried about joint pains and would also like a physical, it's best to schedule a separate visit for each.
In general, we prefer seeing patients for the following:
- Infants require visits for well-child checks within 1 week of birth, then at 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, 9 months, 1 year, 15 months and 18 months for developmental screening and vaccinations.
- We prefer that children 2 years and older are seen yearly around their birthdays.
- Teenagers should have their yearly physicals as they are going through hormonal and body changes.
- Sexually active women over 21 years of age require PAP smears every 3 years to screen for cervical cancer.
- Women over 50 years of age require mammograms to screen for breast cancer every 2 years.
- Men and women over 50 need colonoscopy or stool test to screen for colon cancer.