Primary Care

Primary care covers all your family’s health requirements from birth to old age. Phillip Mendoza MD, LLC has offices in Brighton, Colorado, and Anchorage, Alaska, providing comprehensive, patient-centered primary care. He treats acute and chronic conditions and helps people lead better, healthier lives. Call Dr. Mendoza’s Brighton or Anchorage office to learn about the many primary care services you can benefit from, or book an appointment online today.

What is primary care?

Primary care physicians like Dr. Mendoza deliver your everyday health needs. You visit his office when you’re sick, in pain, or have worrying symptoms. He can fulfill all your requirements apart from treating medical emergencies requiring immediate hospital treatment.

Dr. Mendoza offers acute care management with extended hours (evening and weekends) and telehealth appointments to ensure you receive prompt attention for urgent problems like:

• Colds and flu
• Diarrhea and vomiting
• Strep throat and tonsillitis
• Rashes
• Fevers
• Dehydration
• Headaches and migraines
• Sprains and strains
• Back injuries
• Cuts, burns, and scalds
• Urinary tract infections

Dr. Mendoza also treats problems like allergies, eczema, acne, abscesses, constipation, acid reflux, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), arthritis, diabetes, and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

What services does primary care offer me and my family?

Dr. Mendoza is a family medicine specialist who provides comprehensive care to children and adults of all ages. In addition to diagnosing and treating urgent health problems, he offers other invaluable primary care services, including:

• Chronic disease management
• Sexually transmitted disease (STD) screening, testing, and treatment
• Birth control and family planning
• Wound care for diabetic and other ulcers
• In-office skin biopsies
• Suboxone® treatment for opioid use disorder
• Joint injections to ease pain and inflammation
• Annual physicals
• Well-woman exams
• Sports physicals
• Well-child checks
• Immigration physicals
• Department of Transport (DOT) physicals

Preventive medicine is also one of primary care’s main roles.

What part does preventive medicine play in primary care?

Preventive medicine ensures you avoid ill health wherever possible and that if you develop potentially life-threatening conditions, you receive an early diagnosis and treatment.

It begins with leading a healthy lifestyle and changing bad habits that increase your risk of conditions like cancer and heart disease. Good habits to adopt include:

• Exercising regularly
• Finding ways to relax and reduce stress
• Reducing caffeine consumption
• Eating plenty of fruits, nuts, vegetables, and whole grains.
• Quitting smoking
• Avoiding eating large meals
• Reducing your full-fat dairy and red meat intake
• Drinking plenty of water per day
• Cutting down on sugar, salt, and unhealthy fats

Dr. Mendoza helps you with expert advice and support, including nutrition counseling, cholesterol checks, blood sugar measurement, blood pressure monitoring, smoking cessation, and medical weight-loss programs. He also provides Pap smears and other cancer screenings.

Call Phillip Mendoza MD, LLC to learn more about his first-class primary care services, or book an appointment online today.