General Practitioners

• Arthritis
• Primary Care
  Telemedicine involves the use of electronic communications to enable health care providers at different locations to share individual patient medical information for the purpose of improving patient care. Providers may include primary care practitioners, specialists, and/or subspecialists. The information may be used for diagnosis, therapy, and/or follow-up; and may include any of the following...
• Colonoscopy
  Colonoscopy enables your doctor to examine the lining of your colon for abnormalites by inserting a flexible tube as thick as your finger into your anus and slowly advancing it into the rectum and colon.
• Immunizations
  17. Proof of Immunization. We will disclose proof of immunization to a school where the law requires the school to have such information prior to admitting a student if you have agree to the disclosure on behalf of yourself or your dependent.

Internists

• Internal Medicine
  Dr. Yang is a native of Taiwan and moved to California after high school. She attended college in Los Angeles and graduated medical school from Northwestern University in Chicago. Dr. Yang moved to the Bay Area for her post-graduate medical training and completed her internal medicine residency at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.
• Gastroenterology
  Peninsula Gastroenterology Medical Group is dedicated to continuing your health care in a safe and convenient way using video visits with Zoom or Doximity. The information below can help guide you.
• Colon Cancer
  “ Colon cancer is one of the most common types of cancer worldwide, and its prevalence varies by region and age group. According to the World Health Organization, there were an estimated 1.8 million new cases of colon cancer in 2018, and it was the third most common cancer in both men and women.
• Endoscopy
  Atherton Endoscopy Center requires that you have a responsible adult accompany you home and inside your house after your procedure. You will not be allowed to drive yourself home or to take a taxi, Uber, Lyft, county bus, Care Advantage, Redi-Wheels or any type of public transportation. Your procedure will be canceled unless you have an appropriate ride home. It is your responsibility to find your own ride. Please talk to your doctor if you anticipate being unable to find a ride.

Psychiatrists

• Mental Health
  3. Right to Inspect and Copy. You have the right to inspect and copy your health information, with limited exceptions. To access your medical information, you must submit a written request detailing what information you want access to, whether you want to inspect it or get a copy of it, and if you want a copy, your preferred form and format. We will provide copies in your requested form and format if it is readily producible, or we will provide you with an alternative format you find acceptable, or if we can’t agree and we maintain the record in an electronic format, your choice of a readable electronic or hardcopy format. We will also send a copy to another person you designate in writing. We will charge a reasonable fee which covers our costs for labor, supplies, postage, and if requested and agreed to in advance, the cost of preparing an explanation or summary, as allowed by federal and California law. We may deny your request under limited circumstances. If we deny your request to access your child's records or the records of an incapacitated adult you are representing because we believe allowing access would be reasonably likely to cause substantial harm to the patient, you will have a right to appeal our decision. If we deny your request to access your psychotherapy notes, you will have the right to have them transferred to another mental health professional.

Endocrinologist

• Diabetes Care

Radiologist

• Ultrasound
  To examine tumor or polyp in greater detail by analyzing each of the 5 wall layers of rectum or colon by using a small ultrasound probe which is passed from the rectum to the area of interest. Standard colonoscopy can only visualize the first layer and miss what is hiding beneath. EUS also provides much higher resolution images than CT scans or MRI’s and better assessment of small lymph nodes outside of the intestines. Surrounding organs such as the prostate, seminal vesicles, vagina, uterus, bladder, and blood vessels can also be analyzed. Biopsies can be obtained for diagnosis.
• MRI
  Avoid going near MRI machines and radio transmitters. It is fine to use a cell phone, computer or radio. Do not stand next to another patient that is undergoing a capsule endoscopy.
• Computed Tomography
  To examine tumor or polyp in greater detail by analyzing each of the 5 wall layers of the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum by using a small ultrasound probe which is passed from the mouth into the stomach. Standard upper endoscopy can only visualize the first layer and miss what is hiding beneath. Lymph nodes and blood vessels outside of the intestines can also be evaluated by EUS. Compared to CT scans and MRI’s, EUS also provides much higher resolution images and better assessment of small lesions in the chest cavity, pancreas, bile duct, gallbladder, liver, and spleen. Biopsies can be obtained for diagnosis. Information obtained by EUS is very important in deciding what the best course of treatment should be.
• Chemotherapy

Dermatologists

• Lesions

Allergists

• Allergies