Sat Nov 21 2009
A second hospitalist, Muktak Mathur, MD, has joined Defiance Clinic and is providing night coverage for hospitalized clinic patients. He joins J.D. Reeves, MD, who continues as daytime hospitalist.
The hospitalists manage the patients' care while they are in the hospital and work closely with the patients' primary care physicians.
Mathur is a family practice physician. He has just completed a three-year residency in the Department of Family Medicine at Atlanta (Ga.) Medical Center.
He served as chief resident for the past year.
"Hospital medicine is an evolving specialized field of medicine where specially trained physicians provide quality care to the hospitalized patients," Mathur said." It involves providing for the total well being of acutely ill patients."
"I decided to be a hospitalist as it not only offers me academic stimulation but also provides me an opportunity to connect with my patients'" he added. "Patients are uncomfortable and often nervous when they are admitted to the hospital. They are frequently in need of more information, and they feel a lack of control. I believe in communicating and comforting my patients and involving them in their health care."
He continued, "The American author Orison Marden once said, 'There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.' I want to be that physician, providing my patients with hope by alleviating their suffering, using the latest evidence-based guidelines, incorporating interdisciplinary team efforts, and providing a patient-centered hospital environment."
In addition to his work in Defiance, Mathur is also involved in a multi-centric clinical trial on diabetes being funded by the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Md.
Mathur earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Delhi, India, where he majored in microbiology and molecular genetics. He received his medical degree from the Higher Medical Institute in Pleven, Bulgaria, and spent a year as house officer at Hindu Rao Hospital in Delhi, India, before training at the Atlanta Medical Center.
Mathur is married to Kamna Mathur and they have a two-year-old daughter named Aradhyaa.
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