Stephen J Halpern & Jack Watson Mds

Family Medicine

Stephen J Halpern & Jack Watson Mds is a Family Medicine practice in Santa Cruz, CA with healthcare providers who have special training and skill in family-centric healthcare. Family Medicine Doctors at Stephen J Halpern & Jack Watson Mds perform medical history analysis, diagnostics, and treatments for a wide variety of dysfunctions, conditions, and injuries. Family Medicine is a medical specialty devoted to the medical care of the family unit. Significant diseases and conditions treated at Family Medicine practices include cold and flu, asthma and allergies, ear and eye infections, yeast infections, diabetes, high blood pressure, hormone imbalance, nutritional imbalance, stress and depression, muscle tears and sprains, and sexually transmitted diseases. Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Family Medicine practices include annual exams, immunizations, medication refills, hormone level testing, cardiovascular testing, pap smears and genital exams, specialist referrals, and patient education.

Family Medicine is the medical specialty which is concerned with the total health care of the individual and the family. It is the specialty in breadth which integrates the biological, clinical, and behavioral sciences. The scope of family medicine is not limited by age, sex, organ system, or disease entity.

Adolescent Family Medicine

Stephen J Halpern & Jack Watson Mds is an Adolescent Family Medicine practice in Santa Cruz, CA with healthcare providers who have special training and skill in providing healthcare for adolescents. Adolescent Medicine Family Doctors at Stephen J Halpern & Jack Watson Mds perform services within a family context. Adolescent Family Medicine is medical care of patients in their late teens to early twenties. Significant diseases and conditions treated at Adolescent Family Medicine practices include injuries, physical and mental developmental delays, menstrual disorders, and sexually transmitted diseases. Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Adolescent Family Medicine practices include annual physicals, injury treatment, medicine prescriptions, and pregnancy and STD testing.

A family medicine physician with multidisciplinary training in the unique physical, psychological and social characteristics of adolescents and their health care problems and needs.