-: My name is Bree Beach.
I'm a family medicine physician.
I'm currently working at Carilion Clinic in Roanoke,
and finishing up my residency there.
So I think for us it's more about just kinda
taking care of you in all aspects of life
so not just, you know at that time you have belly pain
and that's all we're focused on.
We're focusing on everything that happens
to you on a daily basis, you know understanding that
your grandpa that we also see in the clinic is sick and so,
you know you may not be doing as well
on a daily basis because of that.
So just looking at you from more than just
your complaint of the day and you know
how your job plays into it, how your kids play into it
and everything else.
So sometimes we're in a hospital.
Sometimes we're in an outpatient specialty clinics,
but at the root of all of it, we have our own clinic
that you think of, you know that you'd go to
for any kind of primary care
where I have my own patients that I see.
So at least, about two to three days a week
I'm there seeing patients and then the other
parts of the week I can be off
doing all sorts of different things.
It could be on a surgery rotation,
it could be taking care of our inpatients service,
it could be delivering babies, it just depends on the month.
Busy shift in our clinic, I start seeing patients
at 8:00 a.m. and see patients all the way through til 5:00,
and they're every 15 to 20 minutes one after another.
You can literally see anything
and that's what I love about it.
So I can go from one room where I'm meeting with a family
talking about, you know hey should we
be looking more at hospice care
and talking about stopping treating your cancer,
and then I go to the next room and it's a one month old
there for you know their first doctor's visit.
It can be anything in between, so we bounce around from
chronic disease stuff like diabetes and high blood pressure,
to the sniffles, to sometimes you know we're doing stitches
or someone walks in after falling off a bike
and needing to get a cast, so everything in a span of a day.
Our program is set up where we have what's called
night floats, so there's a couple weeks out of the year
that you're working strictly nights in the hospital,
which helps cut down on how much
call you have to take at home.
So, there's always somebody in the hospital 24/7
for our service, but we have a few weekends out of the year
that you have to go in and work the weekend
so that the impatient team can have a day off.