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	<span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'arial', 'sans-serif'"><font face="Arial"><font color="#000000">The American Board of Physician Specialties®
(ABPS) sets rigorous standards of cerification,at all times furthering patient care,not only in the major cities but in rural areas that are sometimes forgotten — always focusing on communities’ needs. Our allopathic (MD) & osteopathic (DO) physicians place patients first and abide by the highest ethical standards.
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	<span style="font-size: 14px"><b><u><span style="font-family: 'arial', 'sans-serif'"><font face="Arial"><font color="#000000">VALUES</font></font></span></u></b></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 12px"><font face="Arial"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-family: 'arial', 'sans-serif'">Integrity, Trust &amp; Respect<br />
	</span></b><span style="font-family: 'arial', 'sans-serif'">Our organization and its Diplomates/members conduct themselves with the highest level of integrity ensuring patient safety while providing for the highest level of care. Our Diplomates/members and organization build trust and respect with one another in order to ensure advancement and success in healthcare.</span></font></font></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 12px"><font face="Arial"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-family: 'arial', 'sans-serif'">Open &amp; Honest Communications<br />
	</span></b><span style="font-family: 'arial', 'sans-serif'">We believe that knowledge is power and as an organization we believe in empowering and educating internal and external audiences helping to bring patient care to the forefront of healthcare issues. It is only through open and honest communications that we can build unity and strength. </span></font></font></span></p>
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	<b><span style="font-family: 'arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt"><font color="#000000" face="Arial">Sharing Knowledge &amp; Best Practices<br />
	</font></span></b><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'arial', 'sans-serif'"><font color="#000000" face="Arial">Patient and Physician knowledge is power. Collaboration and proactive communications allow for advancement in medicine. Together our board certified physicians strive to share experiences, learnings and best practices in order to advance the level and quality of patient care.<br />
	</font><font face="Arial"><font color="#000000"><b>Advocating For The Highest Level Of Patient Care<br />
	</b>The rigorous standards that we set ensures that our Physician Diplomates will provide the highest level of patient care. As this is our most important priority we believe that it is only through proactive outreach to healthcare organizations, hospitals, legislators and communities that we can ensure that all healthcare professionals are placing patients first &ndash; not the business of medicine.</font></font></span></span></p>
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	<font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-family: 'arial', 'sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa">Compassion<br />
	</span></b><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'arial', 'sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa">Our physicians demonstrate compassion in every aspect of their practice. By instilling compassion in the practice of medicine we find it continuously raises the quality and level of healthcare. The business of medicine has allowed compassion to fall to the wayside &ndash; we strive to bring it back to the forefront of patient care.</span></span></font></p>
