Doctors in Gilroy, Primary Care Physician, Internal Medicine Doc

Community Internal Medicine is a primary, geriatric, and preventive care, healthcare facility based out of Gilroy, California. Founded/Headed/Led by Dr. Samuel Wu, we are one of the most respected primary care facilities in the area. Dr. Wu and his philosophy of patient care have helped us provide exceptional care, treatment, and rehabilitation to our patients for various ailments, diseases, and conditions.

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24-hour Holter Monitoring - Primary Care Physician – Dr Samuel Wu

A device that is used to record the heart beats consistently is known as Holter. That Holter usually worn for specific time period and that time is from 24 up to 48 hours. Because of its timing this device is also known as 24-hour Holter Monitoring device.

How 24-hour Holter Performed

In 24-hour Holter Monitoring device electrodes fixed on your chest, these electrodes hook up via wires to a small monitor that record your heart beats. You can take this Holter monitor anywhere. It’s up to you that you put monitor in your pocket or in pouch or worn in your neck or waist. As you wear 24-hour Holter Monitoring device, it start recording electrical activities of your heart.

During the 24-hour Holter Monitoring you must follow following steps

Write down the activities you are performing and how you are feeling during the monitoring of heartbeat.

According to the doctor advise return 24-hour Holter Monitoring to the doctor’s office after the 24 to 48 hours.

After that doctor will read reports recorded by 24-hour Holter Monitoring device.

That all steps are very significant that you write down your symptoms & activities in dairy accurately so that doctor match that symptoms with the findings of 24-hour Holter Monitoring. Firmly attachment of the electrodes to the chest is very significant so that monitor gets perfect recording of heart activities.  

Precautions that is necessary while using 24-hour Holter Monitoring device

Don’t use Electric blankets

Don’t go to the high-voltage areas

Never use magnet during the usage of 24-hour Holter Monitoring

Never use Metal detector during the use of 24-hour Holter Monitoring

After wearing 24-hour Holter Monitoring device carry on your routine activities. In some cases, doctor asked to exercise during monitoring your heartbeat.

How to prepare for the test

This test is very simple you don’t need any sort of preparations for it. You just beware from following points

When your doctor start monitors for monitoring your heartbeats just ask for them how to put in place electrodes incase if electrodes get loose of fall off.

Before the start of test confirm that you bathe because you can’t take shower while you wearing  24-hour Holter Monitoring device.

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Immunization Clinic - Primary Care Physician - Dr Samuel Wu

Human being never compromise on Health and the fast world in which we are living no one has spear time to waste. Immunization clinic play a vital role in the society we are living. Immunization in hospital takes time as compare to the Immunization Clinic whereas the quality of both is same. Immunization Clinic provides you all type of services that is essential for preventing human body from diseases.

There are several benefits of the Immunization Clinic some of them are describe below.

From Immunization Clinic You will get each and every type of Immunization on time which you required. Every now and then you have to travel out of country urgently for business meetings at this stage you don’t have a time to go hospital take appointment from doctor and complete the process of Immunization so for saving your time and provide you quick & quality services Immunization Clinic play a vital role. No matter what’s the reason is Immunization Clinic fits in your life for getting services on urgent bases.

You can also visit Immunization Clinic after Job time or School time because Immunization Clinic open in morning along with evening times. Yes, if you have time definitely you can take appointment in Immunization Clinic.

For Immunization it creates a lot of difficulties for the patients that don’t have regular doctor but don’t worry because Immunization Clinic don’t demand you to be patient first, you can also go to the Immunization Clinic if you don’t have a regular doctor. The same goes for your entire family. You also feel that wait is almost the same as you assume from the office of the regular doctor, not at all like the emergency room.

If you are searching for any kind of Immunization kindly contact the staff at http://www.drsamuelwu.com/contact-us/ to make required arrangements.

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Pulmonary Function Test - Primary Care Physician - Dr Samuel Wu

Doctors conduct Pulmonary Function Test to conclude how your lungs are functioning. Abbreviation of Pulmonary Function Test is PFT. Word “Pulmonary” is specifically used for lungs functioning. Each time when you have any kind of problem in your lungs you must listen word “Pulmonary”. By Pulmonary Function Test doctors determine any disease that relates to your lungs. The quantity of air held in lungs and the how swiftly air is moved in & out is conclude by Pulmonary Function Tests.

Pulmonary Function Test is totally non-invasive test which is conducted in the office of doctor. For Pulmonary Function Test patients respire in the mouthpiece that is connected with the spirometer. It does not matter rather patients sit or stand during Pulmonary Function Test. Spirometer measure the quantity and rate of air that patient inhale & exhale over a period of time. Usually patients clip over their nose to guarantee all the inhalation is registered correctly. During the Pulmonary Function Test in some attempts doctors records normal respiring along with orchestrated respiring that contain inhaling & exhaling air from the lungs. Some patients feel dizziness during Pulmonary Function Test due to forced breathing or a dumpiness of breath. As Pulmonary Function Test completed this will rapidly diminish.

Before conducting Pulmonary Function Test Doctors give instructions to refrain heavy meal. Heavy meal slow down human body & it take time to digest. And if you smoke doctor advise you not to smoke 4-6 hours earlier the Pulmonary Function Test because smoking effect the accuracy of test. Some patients are on defibrillators or inhaler medications before expected time. Such patients must ask their doctors to avoid them before Pulmonary Function Test or not.

Patients that had flu, any kind of infection or any oral surgery within last three weeks before test must reassessment because such things effect the accuracy of the Tests.

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Internal Medicine Doctor – Dr Samuel Wu

An Internal Medicine Doctor basically gives the treatment of the diagnosed diseases and the prevention of those diseases in adults as well as providing treatment to adults for nonsurgical health problems. We call Internal Medicine doctors as Internists. Internal Medicine Doctors also consider as a Doctor of Doctor’s. The reason behind this is because some physician with specialization in their filed calls them for consultancy. This consultancy helps them a lot in diagnosing health problem of their patient clearly. Internal Medicine Doctor does not focus on the one specific part / area of the human body rather sees it all in all.

It is not necessary that Internal Medicine Doctors only deal with the internal organisms of human beings Internal Medicine Doctors also deal with the external nature that’s why internist have a lot of patients they have to manage their schedule in such a way that every patient get treatment on proper time and don’t cause any negative effect on patient only due to lack of time. It is very common that Internal Medicine Doctor to be called on the cases where other specialized doctor fail in diagnosing disease and give successful treatment to the patient. Due to their vast field and experience in dealing with both internal organisms and external nature Internal Medicine Doctors are successful in cases where other doctors fail to resolve that case. This territory of pharmaceutical has a choice of subspecialties.

As a field if anyone want to be an Internists there are many choices for them because this field also have sub specializations. There are 13 sub specializations that are recognized in United States of America. Here I am going to mention some of sub categories of Internal Medicine Doctors.

Immunology

Nephrology

Cardiology

Oncology

Endocrinology

Infectious Disease Hematology

Rheumatology

The individuals who train to work in Internal Medicine can treat a wide range of issues. They can treat cancer, hepatitis and a variety of different disease.

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Primary Care Physician in Gilroy – Dr Samuel Wu

Primary Care Physician in Gilroy – Dr Samuel Wu

It is essential for you to have a knowledge how you can protect yourself and your family from the minor health issues. It is only possible when the Primary Care Physician refers you to the specialist as per your conditions. Primary care physician has important part in our lives, Primary Care Physician have different categories.

Types of Primary Care Physician

Primary Care Physician are categorized in to several types according to their role and the field in which they get training. It is not necessary for a Primary Care Physician to have a general professional many of female gynecologist are working as a Primary Care Physician with Insurance companies under some insurance planes, same as there are many doctors are working with insurance companies under different insurance planes.

Following are some important types of the Primary Care Physician

Pediatricians                  

Primary Care Physician that deal with the minor problems in youngster of a specific age limit are known as “Pediatricians"

Family Practitioners

“Family Practitioners “are the type of Primary Care Physician that provide basic healthcare services to the whole family members and give you tips and provide you guidance for health issues of whole family.

General Internists

"General Internists" are Primary Care Physicians that provide the basic health facilities to the whole family members and give treatment to an individual if specific family member has any issue with sub specialty.

General Practitioners

These doctors provide their services on general terms like the treatment of usual illness and give you advice how to save yourself from these dieses in future and make yourself healthy and fit.

Importance of Primary Care Physician

Primary care physician plays a key role in medical field. Primary care physician has a deep rooted relationship of Patient and doctor. Doctors know complete history of his patient, his patient life styles and the medical issues that is facing by his patient. That is the core reason or which Primary Care Physician become successful to investigates the diseases of his patients while other doctors fail to investigate patient disease.

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24-hour Holter Monitoring Dr Samuel Wu Gilroy

There are different types of heart diseases and each disease have different impact on every individual. Each and every heart patient has different condition and doctor must check its patient on continual bases to confirm patient health and wellbeing. Due to busy and scheduled life most of people don’t like to spend much time at doctor’s hospital or Clinic. To solve this issue doctors start using monitor to collect heart beat data and that method is known as Holter Monitor. People also use term for this method as 24-Hour Holter Monitoring. People call it 24-hour Holter Monitoring because the minimum time limit of this monitor for collecting heart beat data is 24 hours. 24-hour Holter Monitoring is personal electrocardiogram (ECG) equipment. Patient can also take it home with them and this device monitor the heartbeat of patient on a periodic basis. Here is some basic information about 24-Hour Holter Monitoring.

Understanding Holter Monitoring

24-Hour Holter Monitor is attached to the patient with the small electrodes on chest and patient can take this device anywhere with himself / herself. This device is normally worn for at least 24 hours. Device can be strapped on with belt or shoulder harness so patient carry device easily. Doctor advice patient to wear 24-Hour Holter Monitor for a specific period of time and after that time patient bring 24-Hour Holter Monitor back to the doctor. When doctor get monitor doctor get all the results that he wants from monitor. It is easy and efficient way to figure out how patient heart is working during the specific period of time.

The Benefits of Holter Monitoring

There are many advantages in the use of 24-hour Holter Monitoring. Some of them are mention below.

Doctors easily know how heart of patient is working.

24-hour Holter Monitor is easy to use and doesn’t create any type of trouble to the patient.

Provide good and perfect results of patient’s heartbeat when patient is out of doctor’s clinic.

24-hour Holter Monitor provides accurate results in the minimum time.

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Immunization Clinic - Dr Samuel Wu Gilroy

Immunization is a process that defends the body against an infectious disease. Vaccination is a type of Immunization.

Vaccination is when a vaccine is injected in your body and Immunization is what happens in your body after injecting the vaccine.

Immunization is a very successful process used to improve the resistible power of immune system against any type of harmful diseases. That is why it is important for a person to visit Immunization Clinic on routine bases. It is essential for human beings to improve the defensive measures by following the precautions given by Immunization Clinic against the diseases that are catastrophic and chance to leave bad impact on your health.

Benefits of Immunization Clinic

There are a lot of benefits of Immunization Clinic some of them is describe below

In the past large number of baby children’s died due to some disease and parents refuse for more childbearing only due to sudden passing of their baby children’s. In recent times large number of Immunization Clinic came in to being that Preventive care allow our doctors to discover health problems before it arise and become so strong so no medicine or treatment stop them.And only due to these Immunization Clinic it is possible to save the life of number of people. Lab tests and the physical examinations are necessary for Immunization and almost every Immunization Clinic provides you that facilities. Immunization help you a lot to stay healthy and active. It boosts energy in your body and able it to fight against diseases from the very first stage.

In case if children found with lack of immunity against some critical diseases, they can suffer with more illness rather than others. Immunization is also helpful to decrease the process of spreading diseases from one individual to another. You must be careful about yourself and your children so you safe yourself and your children from bad, harmful diseases. For this you must visit Immunization Clinic on routine bases.

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Trigger Point Injection - Dr Samuel Wu Gilroy

Trigger point Injection is basically for managing pain and is use in Trigger point therapy. Trigger point therapy is use for the treatment of specific spots of pain known as 'Trigger points'.Trigger Point Treatments is usually use for releasing number of pains some of these pains are mention below

Back Pain

Neck Pain

Shoulder Pain

Headaches

Muscle soreness

In most cases when you have injury or pain on any body part 3 out of 5 times it is observed that you might ignore the major signs. There are different types of pain especially joint and muscle pains that one has to endure but if you have staggering pains in your upper back area and shoulder areas actually then you are suffering from trigger points pains. These points are located in the body of patients at different places. These points are the main area which create swelling and spam on the human being skeleton muscles.

At the point when a patient is experiencing such point issues, it is vital that the specialist must infuse Trigger point injection to the Patient.

Trigger Point Injection

Trigger Point Injection is given to the patient when patient is suffering from trigger point problem and also when the wound is growing rapidly towards the trigger point. Trigger Point Injection is given to the patient in the specific conditions that mention above. Trigger Point Injection is beneficial for many type of injuries let us look why doctor prefer Trigger Point Injection treatment over others.

Benefits of the Trigger Point Injection

Majority of times Trigger Point Injection is only felicitated when patient is suffering from the issues like common injury, named as "myofascial" and "fibromyalgia" pain issues. But experts also noted that trigger placements sometimes hit back with chronicle pains that is even more dangerous to human body. This is the point where we need Trigger Point Injections. The basic and the major benefit of the Trigger Point Injection is that it easily inserts medicine right in to trigger point pain.