General Practitioners

• Arthritis
• Sinusitis
• Medical Weight Loss
  Herbal Supplements 9/8/2017 Be careful with herbal supplements, especially those promising weight loss. Often, it’s too good to be true & may
• Primary Care
  We know you have been inundated with a lot of information regarding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), and it is difficult to filter fact from fiction. We want to provide you with facts, obtained from the CDC, World Health Organization, infectious disease specialists and epidemiologists, with the purpose of keeping you updated on this virus, the public health response, as well as the steps we’re taking in our clinic to address this issue and remain accessible to our patients. As your primary care providers, our purpose is not to cause more panic, but to inform so that you can keep yourself and our community as healthy as possible and so that you can be prepared for the news and government directions that will continue to come out.  This is not a virus to fear, but it IS a virus for which to prepare and be proactive – that is our goal and our hope for you.
• Family Practice
  Currently, Boerne Family Medicine has NOT RECEIVED AND HAS NOT been approved by the state to administer this vaccine – storage requirements are very difficult to attain.  More than likely, local pharmacies will be the primary outlet for these vaccines initially.  So to repeat, Boerne Family Medicine will not be able to administer this vaccine in the near future. We will send updates as we receive them.
• Emergency Care
  As far as availability from other community sources, local pharmacies and possibly an urgent care clinic may have the vaccines available soon.  If you are over 65 or an adult with certain chronic health conditions like diabetes, severe immunosuppression, chronic heart or kidney disease, it seems likely that at some point in January the vaccine will be made available for administration to this group.  The rest of the population will be open for available vaccine administration in the months after that, most likely later in the spring, depending on manufacturing capacity.
• Bronchitis
• Pneumonia
• Immunizations
  For most healthy adults, COVID-19 presents with symptoms similar to the common cold or flu. Symptoms typically begin 2-5 days after exposure and can last for 1-2 weeks. Symptoms can include chills, fever and cough, and many people can have mild symptoms or even have none at all. Even higher risk individuals (over 65, history of high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, asthma, COPD, kidney disease, cancer or immunosuppression, among others) will by and large recover, but a higher proportion of these individuals will require hospitalization and life support (15-20%).  COVID-19 appears to be more dangerous than the flu, especially because we have no immunization.  It appears to be twice as contagious as the flu and anywhere from 5-10 times as deadly, especially for those vulnerable groups listed above (as high as 5%-10% fatality rate).  Younger people can still become very sick and even die as well, but at a much lower rate (0.1-0.4%).  Children seem to either have very mild symptoms or no symptoms at all and there have been NO deaths under 10 years old reported in the world, although children can probably spread the virus to others.

Internists

• Urinary Tract Infection

Psychiatrists

• Mental Health

Endocrinologist

• Diabetes Care
• Thyroid

Allergists

• Allergies