GRASPING ONTO SANITY WITH BOTH HANDS HERSELF...

Dr. Raymond takes medicine seriously and herself lightly. Well respected by her patients and colleagues, Dr. Patricia Raymond has a special prescription for her fellow medical caregivers-- heal yourselves before the stress and pressure of the profession bring your lives crashing down.

Board certified in both Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Dr. Raymond earned her medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia in 1986. She served her internship and residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville Tennessee, and completed her Gastroenterology fellowship at the Medical College of Virginia.

Entering private practice in Virginia in 1992, she now practices solo patient-centered Gastroenterology, and is a Fellow of both the American College of Gastroenterology and the American College of Physicians. She has chaired the ACG's Women in GI and Practice Management Committees.In 2004, she was selected as YWCA Woman of Distinction in Medicine for Southeastern Virginia.

The author of Don’t Jettison Medicine and Colonoscopy: It’ll Crack u Up!, numerous medical papers, and editorials, Dr. Raymond hosts Housecalls, a popular regional NPR medical talk show, has served as spokesman for several pharmaceuticals, and is active in the prestigious National Speakers Association. Raymond writes regular columns in My Family Doctor and Endonurse magazines.

Dr. Raymond's newest interest? Enhancing the patient-physician partnership through YourHealthChoice.net. Subscription to her email newsletter revealing the small, science-based choices that you as health consumer can make that lead to big wellness is FREE, and her YHC minute can be heard on radio stations nationwide.