Dr. Perlmutter's Specialty
What Is a Specialty or Area of Special Expertise?
A specialty is the branch of medicine in which a doctor has completed advanced clinical training and education. Most doctors are board certified in their specialty. To receive the best healthcare for your needs, consider choosing a doctor who specializes in your particular medical condition. A specialist will concentrate on your specific needs and will be familiar with the best treatment methods.
Read MoreA specialty is the branch of medicine in which a doctor has completed advanced clinical training and education. Most doctors are board certified in their specialty. To receive the best healthcare for your needs, consider choosing a doctor who specializes in your particular medical condition. A specialist will concentrate on your specific needs and will be familiar with the best methods of treatment.
Examples of specialists are a pediatrician who focuses on the physical, emotional, and social health of children from birth to young adulthood; or a cardiologist who specializes in diseases and conditions of the heart and blood vessels.
A doctor may have more than one specialty, along with one or more subspecialties. For instance, a doctor could specialize in internal medicine and have a subspecialty in infectious disease. A subspecialty is a concentration within a specialty.
Your primary care doctor (who is often a specialist in family medicine or internal medicine) can help you choose the right type of specialist. In fact, some health insurance plans require a referral from your primary care doctor before you visit a specialist.
Dr. Perlmutter's License & Board Certification
Why is Board Certification Important?
Board certification requires extensive training and a rigorous review of a doctor’s knowledge, experience and skill in a medical specialty. Board certification also means that a doctor is actively improving his or her practice of medicine through continuing education. A board-certified doctor is more likely than a non-board-certified doctor to have the most current skills and knowledge about how to treat your medical condition.
Read MoreBoard certification requires extensive training and a rigorous review of a doctor’s knowledge, experience and skill in a medical specialty. Board certification also means that a doctor is actively improving his or her practice of medicine through continuing education. A board-certified doctor is more likely than a non-board-certified doctor to have the most current skills and knowledge about how to treat your medical condition.
A doctor who is board certified has taken an important step beyond getting a required state medical license to practice. Some doctors choose not to apply for board certification. A doctor who is not board certified may be an excellent doctor who is fully licensed to practice medicine in his or her state.
If you are considering a doctor who is not board certified, consider asking the doctor why he or she is not certified. This information might provide you important background information to help you decide whether or not to see that doctor.
Common Procedures Performed by Cardiologists
Common Conditions Treated by Cardiologists
- Angina
- Arrhythmias
- Heart Attack
- Heart Disease
- Heart Failure
- Hypertension
Dr. Perlmutter's Education & Training
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What Is a Residency?
Residency is a medical training program that a doctor completes to gain expertise in a specialty. To receive the best healthcare for your needs, consider choosing a doctor who has completed a residency and therefore specializes in the area of your particular medical condition. A specialist will concentrate on your specific needs and will be familiar with the best treatment methods. Read MoreResidency is a medical training program that a doctor completes to gain expertise in a specialty. To receive the best healthcare for your needs, consider choosing a doctor who has completed a residency and therefore specializes in the area of your particular medical condition. A specialist will concentrate on your specific needs and will be familiar with the best treatment methods.
Examples of specialists are a pediatrician who focuses on the physical, emotional and social health of children from birth to young adulthood; or a cardiologist who specializes in diseases and conditions of the heart and blood vessels.
Residency training takes place in accredited hospitals or other healthcare facilities under the supervision of experienced doctors. Residency training lasts from three to seven years, and the exact duration varies from specialty to specialty. Residency is required for specialty board certification.
Dr. Perlmutter's Background Check
Malpractice
Sanctions
Sanctions history found
Nature of Complaint:
The physician violated the terms and conditions of the board's monitored aftercare program. The physician has suffered a relapse and tested positive on two occasions for low level Ethylglucuronide. The physician admitted to the board's addiction medicine consultant in May 2008 that he had been drinking alcohol sporadically over the last two months.
Action Taken:
The physician has entered into an Interim Consent Agreement for Practice Restriction with the board subject to the following terms and conditions:
- The physician shall not practice clinical medicine or any medicine involving direct patient care.
- The physician is prohibited from prescribing any form of treatment including prescription medications until permitted to do so by the board.
- This order is subject to further consideration by the board.
February 5, 2009-Probation
The Interim Practice Restriction was terminated on 09-03-2008 and the physician entered into an Interim Consent Agreement to participate in the board's Monitored Aftercare Program.
The board has placed the physician on Probation for a period of five years subject to the following terms and conditions:
- The physician shall submit quarterly declarations of probation compliance to the board.
- The physician shall participate in the board's MAP Program.
- The physician shall attend MAP's relapse prevention group therapy sessions once per week for the duration of the physician's probation.
- The physician shall attend ninety 12-step meetings or other self-help group meetings for substance abuse.
- The physician shall participate in a 12-step recovery program or other self-help program as recommended by the MAP Director and approved by the board.
- The physician shall obtain medical care and treatment only from a board approved primary care physician and from other health care providers referred by the PCP.
- The physician shall take no medication unless prescribed by the physician's PCP or other PCP referred health care providers.
- The physician shall maintain a medication log.
- The physician shall abstain from alcohol or poppy seeds.
- The physician shall submit to witnessed biological fluid collection.
- The physician shall submit to mental, physical and medical competency examinations.
- The physician shall submit to all board ordered medical, substance abuse, and mental health care and treatment.
- The physician shall obey all laws and all rules governing the practice of medicine in the State of Arizona.
- The physician shall appear before the board uppon request.
- The physician shall provide written confirmation of compliance with the notification requirement.
- This order supersedes all previous consent agrements and stipulations between the board and the physician.
