Dr. Usman Ramzan, MD is Board Certified in the specialty of Internal Medicine and offers Primary Care Services.

Preventive Care & Wellness

This is the foundation of primary care, aimed at keeping you healthy and catching potential health problems early before they become serious.

  • Complete Physical Exams: Including annual, school, or work physicals.  Comprehensive head-to-toe assessments, checking vital signs, EKG, calculating BMI, and assessing overall physical health.
  • Routine Vaccinations: Keeping you up to date on crucial immunizations and what is recommended depending on decade of life
  • Cancer Screenings: Coordinating age-appropriate screenings, including ordering mammograms (breast cancer), pap smears (cervical cancer), colonoscopies (colon cancer), and PSA blood test (prostate cancer), low-dose Chest CT (lung cancer)
  • Cardiovascular & Metabolic Risk Assessments: Checking your baseline health risks through EKG, vitals, extensive metabolic blood testing including fasting lipids.

Chronic Disease Management

If you have a long-term medical condition, your PCP acts as the captain of your care team to keep the condition stable and prevent complications.

  • Diabetes Care: Tracking your long-term blood sugar levels (A1C), counseling you on nutrition, managing insulin or oral medications, and performing routine foot or nerve checks.
  • Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) Management: Monitoring blood pressure trends, prescribing and adjusting medications, and recommending dietary modifications (like lowering sodium intake).
  • Lung Disease: Asthma & COPD Support – Prescribing daily maintenance inhalers, providing emergency rescue inhalers, and creating an active treatment plan for respiratory flare-ups.
  • High Cholesterol Treatment: Evaluating your lipid panels, managing statins or other cholesterol-lowering medications, and setting heart-healthy exercise and dietary goals.
  • Heart Disease:  Monitoring vital signs, cardiac blood tests, serial EKGs, setting up ECHOs, Nuclear stress-testing, and holter-monitoring
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disorders: Diagnosing and treating Ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, Inflammatory Bowel syndrome in conjunction with gastroenterologist
  • Thyroid disorders:  Managing under or overactive thyroid disease with medication and blood test monitoring

Acute Care for Illness & Injury

When you wake up feeling sick or suffer a minor injury, your PCP’s office is often a faster, more affordable alternative to an urgent care clinic or emergency room.

  • Infections: Diagnosing and treating sudden infections, such as bronchitis, sinus infections, earaches, urinary tract infections (UTIs), and skin rashes.
  • Seasonal Illnesses: Providing treatment plans and supportive care for the flu, strep throat, common colds, stomach bugs, and seasonal allergies.
  • Minor Injuries: Evaluating and treating minor physical mishaps, including sprains, strains, minor cuts that may need basic stitching or glue, and mild burns.

Specialist Referrals & Care Coordination

Your PCP looks at your health from a “whole-picture” perspective. When a problem requires highly specialized knowledge, they act as your navigator.

  • Targeted Specialist Referrals: Assessing your symptoms to determine if you need to see a specialist (such as a cardiologist for heart concerns, a gastroenterologist for digestive issues, or a dermatologist for skin conditions).
  • Medical Information Sharing: Ensuring your medical records, lab results, and imaging scans are securely sent to the specialist so you don’t have to repeat tests.
  • Medication Reconciliation: Reviewing any new medications prescribed by a specialist to make sure they do not conflict or cause dangerous interactions with your current prescriptions.