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Tampa Medical Group is dedicated to providing their patients with compassionate healthcare, including preventative medicine, the latest technologies in diagnosis, and the most sound effective therapies. Not only do we focus on the treatment of arthritis, osteoporosis, and other autoimmune disorders, our physicians also address a variety of internal medicine issues. Our staff has built a reputation for giving excellent medical care as well as being courteous, organized, and caring to improve the patient experience. We are committed to patient education and offer extensive information for the treatments and procedures recommended by our physicians. All of our doctors are actively accepting new patients with the ability to provide an appointment most often within a few days with a choice of three convenient Tampa area locations. Please call for an appointment (813) 879-5485
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Best Doctors in America
We are excited to announce that the physicians of Tampa Medical Group have once again been named as “Best Doctors in America.” Physicians across the country were asked, “If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, to whom would you refer them?” They nominated doctors that they trust and know are the best in medicine. Only 5% of physicians in the U.S. receive this prestigious accolade. Congratulations Dr. McIlwain, Dr. Silverfield, Dr. Burnette, Dr. Cruse, and Dr. Smith.
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Our office is excited to offer access to new therapies and treatments through our Clinical Research Department. For over thirty years, our dedicated staff of study coordinators has participated in testing the effectiveness of a variety of medications. Our expertise is targeted at arthritis-related diseases, SLE (lupus), rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, psoriatic arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, hypertension, ankylosing spondylitis, obesity, hypercholesterolemia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, insomnia, depression, and other areas of internal medicine. We are proud to have participated in the trials for the development of such drugs as Uloric, Zostavax, Prolia, Actemra, Synvisc, naproxen, Lunesta, Evista, Boniva, Celebrex, Reclast, Fosamax, Crestor, Humira, Prozac, and Remicade. As a patient, if you are interested in participating in a research study, you can gain access to new research treatments before the treatments are widely available. For information, please check out: Current Clinical Trials. As a sponsor, please see our Site Profile Clinical Trials.
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All adults lose bone mass as they age. For some this loss results in fragile bones that are prone to fractures. The World Health Organization has developed an online tool called FRAX to evaluate a patient's risk for fracture. The formula takes into account specific risk factors to estimate the likelihood for a person to break a hip or other major bone due to low bone mass or osteoporosis over a period of ten years. The FRAX calculator is simple, free, and is available for all to use. As always, guides like the FRAX are only part of the evaluation process. It has been recently thought to possibly underestimate the risks of future fracture. it also only looks at hip bone density and is heavily weighted toward age. In addition, if you havae been on osteoporosis therapy of any type, the FRAX tool is not accurate or usable. Please contact your physician to fully evaluate your medical needs. Click here to visit the FRAX website.
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