Eastern Plumas Health Care welcomes board certified family practice physician, Dr. Anne Williams, to its staff. She\u2019ll be seeing patients primarily in Portola (including one Saturday per month). Dr. Williams has practiced throughout the Bay Area for the past 23 years, receiving her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX.<\/p>\n
Dr. Williams and her husband recently relocated to the Clio area and are in the process of building their home here. She said she has \u201chappily moved from the Bay Area\u201d to Plumas County. Williams said it was always her goal to practice in a rural setting, as she loves the outdoors, especially skiing, hiking, and horseback riding. Eastern Plumas County, she finds, combines a clean, healthy environment, with friendly and a surprisingly \u201csavvy\u201d population.<\/p>\n
Williams has always combined her traditional practice with an interest in non-traditional medicine, including Chinese acupuncture and herbs. A licensed acupuncturist, she likes to look for non-drug alternatives for patients who are interested in this, and often is able to utilize it as an alternative to pain medication. \u201cWhen it\u2019s possible to treat a patient with vitamins and food instead of drugs, it\u2019s always a plus,\u201d she said, \u201cand it minimizes side effects.\u201d In addition, \u201cwhen you can do acupuncture and have the pain go away, it\u2019s a great feeling.\u201d Williams credits her interest in alternative medicine to a characteristic desire, from a young age, to \u201cexplore new things.\u201d<\/p>\n
To that end, she puts her patients and their unique needs at the center of her practice, viewing the interaction with them as \u201cvery energizing\u2026my interaction with patients should be fun and comfortable.\u201d She gives them the opportunity \u201cto come forth, be themselves and not be intimidated. I try to counter that,\u201d she said. \u201cEverybody needs breathing room.\u201d<\/p>\n
Williams said that the change from a city practice to a rural one was less of a transition than she might have expected. \u201cIt\u2019s not that different,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of attention to detail. [The clinic] is well run and well managed. Everyone is very helpful and supportive. And, management is not too intrusive,\u201d she added, comparing it to Sutter, which was \u201ctop heavy with management.\u201d<\/p>\n
Family practice suits Williams, she said, because \u201cthere\u2019s a great diversity\u2014it\u2019s not boring. I like it because I can be useful\u2026a little bit of everything appeals to my nature. I have a Renaissance state of mind,\u201d she said, adding that there\u2019s a humility that she finds in family practice physicians. There is more of a focus on \u201clistening to patients and caring for patients,\u201d that helps them avoid the \u201chubris that can get in the way\u201d of those important qualities. Also, Williams recalls a woman pediatrician she had as a child, who was a role model. \u201cThe respectable old model\u2026what medicine used to be,\u201d of the family physician who took care of and had an intimate knowledge of entire families \u201cstill appeals,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Dr. Williams said she has too much energy to think about retiring yet, and so she brings her wealth of experience and a level of comfort in what she does to a rural community that she sees as a good fit. It may have taken her 23 years to get here, but both Dr. Williams and the patients of EPHC will benefit from that journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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