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January 2023 Newsletter
Welcome to the January 2023 Newsletter for Santa Monica Primary Care – our first newsletter of the New Year! In this issue, we are going to cover the current state COVID cases and will share our practice experience with COVID plus trends in LA County at large. We will also highlight a couple of initiatives that we have planned for 2023.
December 2022 Newsletter
Welcome to the December 2022 Newsletter for Santa Monica Primary Care – our final newsletter of the year! In this issue, we are going to cover the (expected) seasonal rise in COVID cases and will share our current practice experience with COVID plus trends in LA County at large. We could call this issue the Paxlovid Issue, as there is a lot of detail about its usefulness both in acute illness but also in the prevention of Long COVID.
November 2022 Newsletter
Welcome to the November 2022 Newsletter for Santa Monica Primary Care. In this issue, we are going to cover the alphabet soup of COVID variants and try to predict what may happen as we enter the Holiday Season. We will share our current practice experience with COVID cases as well as trends we are seeing in LA County at large. Lastly, we cover this month’s Blog posts, including one on the utility of colonoscopies in reducing colon cancer mortality rates.
About usAbout us
Santa Monica Primary Care is an independent, full service Internal Medicine practice located adjacent to Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California. Dr. Philip M. Bretsky first established the practice in 2008 in Century City, California. Following two years in Century City, he moved to Santa Monica in 2010 and the practice was renamed Santa Monica Primary Care
Our office provides both outpatient and inpatient healthcare for patients. Dr. Bretsky is on staff at two local hospitals: Providence Saint John’s Health Center, and Cedars Sinai Medical Center. He also takes care of patients at nearby Skilled Nursing centers such as Berkeley East, Seaport 17, Rehabilitation Centre of Santa Monica and Santa Monica Healthcare. If needed, this enables Dr. Bretsky to maintain continuity of care for patients from the office, to the hospital, to the rehab center, and back home..
ServicesServices
- Annual Physicals
- Acute Care
- Anorexia
- Bulimia
- Cardiac Stress Testing
- Cholesterol Screening
- Chronic Disease Evaluation & Management
- Coordinating Care/Specialty Referrals
- Heart Disease
- Hypertension
- Immunizations
- Internal Medicine
- Management Of Chronic Conditions
- Osteoporosis
- Preoperative Examinations
- Preventive Care
Our TeamOur Team
Dr. Bretsky is an experienced, Board-certified Internist and primary care doctor located in Santa Monica, California. He is also a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and has won numerous awards including the Irving Lasker award for best research from the USC Keck School of Medicine, and the prestigious Scholar-In-Training award from the American Association of Cancer Research.
Dr. Bretsky was raised in the town of East Setauket on Long Island, New York. He frequently visited New York City, spent summers at his grandparents’ ranch in Texas, and as soon as he could carry a pack he became a field assistant for his dad, a Geology professor. Dr. Bretsky began traveling the world at a young age including time in Denmark and Sweden as a grade-schooler.
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