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Phone: (276) 676-1860 Forrest Swan is a board-certified internist and oncologist who practices in partnership with Dr. T. Mark Davis at Cancer Outreach Associates in Abingdon, Virginia. Residents who train with Dr. Swan will also work with Dr. Davis. Dr. Swan was born on April 8, 1948 in Ft. Belvoir, Virginia. He attended Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he took a BA degree in 1970. For the next two years, he worked as a teaching assistant in Biology at the University of Illinois in Champaign. Swan received an MD degree in 1978 from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago. In 1981, he completed a three-year residency program in Internal Medicine at Hines VA Hospital in Hines, Illinois. After completing his training, Dr. Swan staffed emergency rooms for two years in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Manitowas, Wisconsin and Gainesville, Florida. In 1983, he began a two-year fellowship in Oncology at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. After completing the fellowship in 1985, Dr. Swan took a position as Assistant Professor in Clinical Medicine at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. He remained with the Center until 1994. From 1994 to 1996, Dr. Swan worked as a locum tenens physician with the Sterling Healthcare Group of Houston, Texas. He moved to Southwest Virginia in 1996 and practiced oncology in Abingdon, Marion, Richlands and Lebanon, Virginia for Southern DependaCare Physicians Health Corporation. In 1998, Dr. Swan initiated his private practice with Cancer Outreach Associates.
Cancer Outreach Associates operates satellite clinics in the Virginia towns of Marion and Norton and in Johnson City, Kingsport, and Erwin, Tennessee. Dr. Thomas R. Johnson and Dr. Tamarro L. Taylor are based in Johnson City and Erwin. Dr. Daryl W. Pierce is based in Kingsport. The satellite clinics also offer chemotherapy on site. Dr. Swan sees an average of 21 patients a day. This average is based on patients seen at the Abingdon office location and do not include patients seen at the other six offices or as hospital consults. Swan estimates that 65% of his patients are older adults; the rest are adults under the age of 65. The practice does not include children. The vast majority (70%) of Dr. Swan's patients are covered by Medicare and/or Medicaid. Another 25% are insured by commerical carriers and about 5% are uninsured.
According to his staff, Dr. Swan shows deep compassion for his patients. He gives each of them his home phone number and beeper number and is available to them 24-hours per day. He works very hard to educate his patients about public and private insurance benefits and helps eligible patients access the benefits they need. Cancer Outreach Associates conducts clinical trials for new cancer medications through the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Duke University Medical Center; Wake Forest University School of Medicine; Georgetown University Medical Center, the Lombardi Cancer Center; and the Sarah Cannon Cancer Research Group. Dr. Swan has published more than fifty articles and abstracts in professional journals. He and his wife live in Abingdon with their three children. Johnston Memorial Hospital is a 135-bed acute care facility in Abingdon. The hospital offers a standard range of services emergency, inpatient and outpatient care, critical care, surgery and anesthesia, obstetrics, neonatal intensive care, radiology, imaging, cardiopulmonary rehab, laboratory, nutrition, physical therapy, pharmacy, and home health. Smyth County Community Hospital is a 176-bed acute care facility in Marion, Virginia, about 30 minutes northeast of Abingdon. Hospital services include emergency care, inpatient and outpatient care, intensive care, surgery and anesthesia, obstetrics, radiology, imaging, laboratory, nutrition, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, physical therapy, pharmacy, and home health. Russell County Medical Center is a 78-bed acute care hospital in Lebanon, Virginia, about 20 minutes northwest of Abingdon. The hospital offers a standard range of services, excepting obstetrics. Residents who train with Dr. Swan may choose to stay in a number of area hostelries Alpine Motel, Best Western, Comfort Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Hampton Inn or in rooms available from individual homeowners in Abingdon. Chartered in 1778, Abingdon, Virginia is the oldest town west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. About 7,500 people live in Abingdon. Local attractions include the town's historic district, the Barter Theatre, the Martha Washington Inn, the Tavern, the William King Regional Arts Center, White's Mill, the Fields-Penn Museum, the Virginia Highlands Festival, and the Virginia Creeper Trail. Outdoor enthusiasts can swim, hike, bike, hunt, fish, and ride in a number of state and national recreation areas: Grayson Highlands State Park, Mount Rogers Recreation Area, Jefferson National Forest, and South Holston Lake. Washington County stretches across the broad and beautiful Tennessee Valley. Clinch Mountain bounds the county to the north and the southeastern corner pushes into the Iron Mountain range. The county is drained by two branches of the Holston River. The local landscape is characterized by pastured hills, quiet, cultivated valleys, and densely forested mountain steeps. Major elements of the Washington County economy include agriculture (tobacco and cattle), manufacturing, personal services, retail trade, and transfer income (retirement pensions, disability payments, and welfare benefits). In 1995, the largest employers were Bristol Compressors (refrigeration and heating equipment), the school board, Johnston Memorial Hospital, Mid-Mountain Foods, and the Camac Corporation (organic fibers.)
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Forrest
Swan, Jr. M.D.
Standard office hours for Cancer Outreach
Associates are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. However,
Dr. Swan seldom leaves the office until 7:00 p.m. The practice suite
in Abingdon includes four exam rooms and a medical laboratory of moderate
complexity. Patients receive chemotherapy on site. There is Internet
access on the premises along with a management information system that
can be used to track the number and diagnoses of patients seen by residents.
Dr. Swan has admitting privileges at three
hospitals - Johnston Memorial Hospital in Abingdon, Smyth County Community
Hospital in Marion, and Russell County Medical Center in Lebanon. He
rounds on 4-8 patients a day, beginning at 6:00 a.m. Typical procedures
performed in the hospital include spinal taps, bone marrow biopsies
and pain management. Dr. Swan is on call every other third week. Residents
are welcome to participate in the call schedule, though most call situations
are handled by telephone and actual hospital visits are rare.