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Phone: (276) 988-2506
Mary Anne Smith is the sole hospital-based physician at Tazewell Community Hospital. She spends about 30% of her time seeing ambulatory patients in the hospital's clinic and about 70% of her time with patients she admits to the hospital. A nurse practitioner works with Dr. Smith and spends most of her time with ambulatory patients. The hospital also plans to employ a physician assistant for the outpatient clinic. Dr. Smith earned a BA degree in Biology from Holy Family College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1965. She received an MD degree from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines in 1973. She interned at V. Luna Military Hospital, Armed Forces of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines from 1973 to 1974 and then completed an internal medicine residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1975 to 1978. Dr. Smith is board-eligible in internal medicine. From 1979 to 1994, Dr. Smith had a private practice in Feasterville, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, where she maintained privileges at Frankford Hospital on the Torresdale Campus. From December 1994 to April 1995, she was an independent contractor with the Village of Newtown Medical Center in Newtown, Pennsylvania. Then from June to August 1995, she served as locum tenens with Tazewell Family Physicians in Tazewell, Virginia. She very much enjoyed her small-town experience in Tazewell and, in December 1995, accepted employment with Tazewell Community as its first staff physician. Dr. Smith is interested in computers but her clinic is not equipped for Internet access at the present time (10/99). The hospital does have a management information system, primarily used for billing purposes, which can track the number and diagnoses of patients seen by residents. The hospital's medical library also has Internet access.
Dr. Smith sees mainly adults and older adults, both in her clinic practice and in the hospital. She estimates that 50% of her patients are adults over the age of 65; 48% are adults between the ages of 20 and 64; and 2% are adolescents under the age of 20. Dr. Smith finds the practice of medicine more fascinating now than she did in medical school. She is extremely happy that she is able to provide good continuity of care for patients in her current practice. She particularly enjoys cardiology and diabetes management. She is constantly learning and she loves case discussions. Dr. Smith believes that residents will especially enjoy working in a small hospital where they can become personally acquainted with patients. Dr. Smith's personal interests are many and varied. She enjoys pets, computers, art, philosophy, creative writing, learning about different cultures, and exploring alternative medicine. Tazewell Community Hospital is a 56-bed acute care facility in Tazewell, Virginia. The hospital offers a standard range of services - emergency, inpatient and outpatient care, intensive care, surgery and anesthesia, radiology, imaging, cardiopulmonary, laboratory, nutrition, physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, respiratory therapy, pharmacy, pathology, and home health. Specialties represented on the hospital staff include emergency medicine, internal medicine, family practice, pathology, pediatrics, general and vascular surgery, general practice, radiology, and dentistry. The hospital operates an outpatient clinic to access services from the following specialties: cardiology, otolaryngology, plastic surgery, orthopedics, podiatry, pulmonary medicine, rheumatology, and nephrology. Tazewell Community Hospital is an affiliate of the Carilion Health System. The Town of Tazewell was founded in 1800 and has a population of 4,176. The population of Tazewell County is 45,960. The landscape includes uncounted glens scattered among hills shaped like gumdrops and mountain ranges that look like the crests of waves interrupted. From hidden hollows in the north to a spectacular ringed cove in the south, Tazewell County is a place of rare and compelling beauty. Major elements of the Tazewell economy are personal services, manufacturing, retail trade, coal mining, transfer payments (retirement pensions, disability income, and welfare benefits), and agriculture. In 1995, the largest employers were Clinch Valley Medical Center, the school board, Southwest Virginia Community College, Long Airdox Company (mining machinery), and Cumberland Mountain Community Services. There are several shopping centers in Tazewell, along with a number of local and franchised restaurants, cinema screens, discount stores, groceries, and specialty boutiques. The community is accessed by four lanes of US 460/19. There are several attractions in Tazewell County. The Crab Orchard Museum & Pioneer Park is a living history settlement with authentic log and stone buildings. Burke's Garden is a huge, unspoiled agricultural basin surrounded by mountains on the Appalachian Trail. The Pocahontas Exhibition Coal Mine and Coal Heritage Museum celebrates the industrial heritage of the region.
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Mary Anne Smith, M.D.
The outpatient clinic is located
within the hospital. It is open from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday
through Friday. Dr. Smith normally works from about 8:00 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m. weekdays. She is normally on call one in six days
during the week and every third or fourth weekend. Residents
may participate in the call schedule as they wish or as required
by their training program. Dr. Smith sees about 10 outpatients
and 10 inpatients per day. There are six exam rooms in the clinic
and Dr. Smith uses 2-3, depending upon the number of patient
appointments made for her. Visiting specialists also use the
outpatient clinic to bring services to Tazewell, including cardiology,
plastic surgery, podiatry, pulmonary medicine, rheumatology,
orthopedics, nephrology, and otolaryngology.)
Patients are referred within the
hospital for laboratory, x-ray, and related services. Some procedures
performed in the clinic include punch biopsies, suturing, skin
flap/lesion removal, cryosurgery, pap smears, and joint injections.
Though Dr. Smith refers patients out for mental health services,
she does treat some patients with relatively minor anxiety and
depression.