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Phone: 276-322-4661 Quasir Raza, M.D. is a board certified Internist who practices solo in Bluefield, Virginia. He is board eligible in Psychiatry and his practice is extended by physician assistant Kimberly Matzel. Born on August 23, 1968, Dr. Raza spent his childhood in Hyderabad, India. He is married to Mona Raza and the family includes two children, a son Nabeel (b. 2001) and daughter Zoya (b. 2003). Dr. Raza graduated from Mahadevappa Rampure Medical College in Gulbrga, India in 1993. He completed the Roanoke-Salem Psychiatric Medicine Residency Program in 2002. This combined Internal Medicine/Psychiatry program is affiliated with the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Bluefield Internal Medicine is open for patient care from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Dr. Raza sees 25-35 patients a day in the office and between 8 and 15 patients a day in the hospital. There are four exam rooms on the premises. Patients are referred to Bluefield Regional Medical Center for medical lab, x-ray, and other diagnostic studies as needed. Dr. Raza estimates that 30% of his patients are adults under the age of 60 and that about 70% of his patients are adults aged 60 or more. About 75% of Dr. Raza’s patients are covered by Medicare or Medicaid; perhaps 25% are covered by private insurance carriers or have no insurance coverage. Dr. Raza’s patient population reflects his professional interests in geriatric medicine and psychiatry. Residents who train with Dr. Raza will be integrated into a practice that treats the whole person. His patients learn the skills of disease prevention while benefiting from competent management of acute and chronic disorders. The doctor’s dual training in psychiatry and medicine gives him a unique perspective on comprehensive care for patients across the adult life cycle, and he is especially interested in meeting the needs of geriatric patients, whether in the office, the hospital, or in residential settings.
Specialties on staff at Bluefield Regional are Allergy and Immunology, Anesthesia, Cardiology, Dentistry, Emergency Medicine, Endocrinology, Family Practice, Gastroenterology, Internal Medicine, Nephrology, OB/GYN, Oral and Maxilofacial Surgery, Oncology/Hematology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Otolaryngology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Physiatry, Podiatry, Psychiatry, Pulmonary Medicine, Radiation Oncology, Radiology, Rheumatology, Surgery, and Urology. Residents who come to Bluefield for training may want to stay at the Dian-Lee House, a bed and breakfast mansion with six bedroom suites, located only a couple of blocks from Dr. Razan’s office. The accommodations include private bath, television, phone, and internet service with breakfast served between 6:30 and 9:30 in the mornings. Alternately, residents may choose to stay in the Country Chalet Bed and Breakfast between Bluefield and Princeton, West Virginia or in one of the numerous motels in the local area. Bluefield is divided by the Virginia/West Virginia border into two municipalities. About 20,000 people live in the area, most of them in West Virginia. The population of Bluefield, Virginia is 5,363 and it lies in the extreme eastern part of Tazewell County. The terrain is mountainous, broken into a lovely confusion of hardwood forests and highland pastures that support small flocks of sheep and larger herds of cattle. Some of the hills look like ancient volcanoes and the southern range resembles the crest of a primordial ocean wave. Bluefield is a pearl set in a landscape of rare and compelling beauty. Once based on coal mining and forestry, the regional economy has grown diverse in recent years. As measured by employment, major elements of the Tazewell County economy are educational, health and social services (22%), retail and wholesale trade (20%), manufacturing (12%), construction (7%), and agriculture, mining, and forestry (7%). U.S. Interstate 77 and U.S. Highway 460/19 intersect in Bluefield. There are several shopping centers in the twin-towns, along with any number of local and franchised restaurants, cinema screens, discount stores, groceries, antique stores, and specialty boutiques. Bluefield is surrounded by the Jefferson National Forest and within a hour’s drive are several attractions: Burke’s Garden, Pocahontas Exhibition Coal Mine, Pipestem Resort, Bluestone State Park, Pinnacle Rook State Park, Camp Creek State Park, and Crab Orchard Museum and Pioneer Park. For more information about the local area, see our community profile for Tazewell County.
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Quasir Raza, M.D.
Bluefield Regional Medical Center is a 265 bed hospital with the following services: emergency, anesthesia, general medical and surgical services for children and adults, intensive care, cardiac catheterization and rehab, medical lab, pharmacy, nutrition, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, dialysis, obstetrical care, occupational and physical therapy, pulmonary rehab, diagnostic and therapeutic radiology, respiratory therapy, case management, speech therapy, skilled nursing, urgent care, and home health care.