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Eastside Family Health Center

WEBDr. Frank Marinkovich owns and operates Eastside Family Health Center in Kirkland, WA. Serving Kirkland and the Eastside, Seattle, Bellevue, Renton and the surrounding local communities. Specializing in Primary Care, Automobile Accidents and FAA physicals. Visit them online at Eastside Family Health Center or call them at (425) …

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Eastside Family Health Center: What to do after an Auto Accident

WEBAs a physician who is involved with patients in all aspects of a car wreck, I want to share some basics of what to do in case you are involved in an automobile accident and how to prepare yourself to get the treatment you need after you have had an accident.

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High Cholesterol and Risk of Heart Disease

WEBOther risk factors: Once you are aware of your cholesterol numbers, there are some other factors that also affect ones risk of coronary disease (heart disease). Other factors that can increase your risk for coronary disease include: cigarette smoking; high blood pressure; family history of heart disease( usually males younger than 55 or females than 65); …

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Eastside Family Health Center: Obesity

WEBThere are several well documented health hazards with obesity, such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer, arthritis, liver disease, sleep apnea, and depression.

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Eastside Family Health Center: Understanding Insurance

WEBWhat does it do? Simply put, an EOB takes the various codes used that tell what was done (procedure or visit) and the reason it was done (diagnosis) explains based on the benefits of your particular insurance policy what was paid by the insurance company, what part will be written off (or discounted) due to an agreement between the insurance company and …

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Eastside Family Health Center: Rheumatoid Arthritis

WEBHow is it diagnosed? Here is a summary of the characteristic features used to make the diagnosis: morning stiffness for at least one hour and present for at least six weeks; swelling of three or more joints for at least six weeks; swelling of the wrist or hand joints for at least six weeks; hand x-rays that show erosions in a joint; nodules under the skin; or blood …

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Eastside Family Health Center: Prostatitis

WEBWhat are risk factors? Acute prostatitis risks include trauma such as bike riding (Training for the STP (Seattle to Portland bike ride)?), horseback riding, dehydration, and sexual abstinence.

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Eastside Family Health Center: By Way of Introduction

WEBIn 1999, Eastside Family Health Center was founded by Dr. Frank and Rita Marinkovich. Dr. Frank and Rita had a desire to offer more personalized care in the face of an ever-expanding corporate model of American health care. A shared desire to provide such personalized care is what accounts for the close relationships amongst the staff.

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Eastside Family Health Center: Gluten FreeWhy

WEBYou have probably seen the labels in the grocery store “Gluten Free”, but why? If you have heard the word gluten or wheat insensitivity, you are on the track of celiac disease.

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Eastside Family Health Center: Tuberculosis Skin Testing

WEBTuberculosis, TB, skin testing is common test given to people for screening. For most people, interpreting a skin test for TB is confusing, especially when one is faced with the possibility of having to take medication for a number of months after the results are read.

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So I was in a car accident but why do I need an attorney

WEBThe story of a motor vehicle accident (MVA), or a car accident, as its most commonly called, usually starts out with something like this: So I was in a car accident but why do I need an attorney?

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Eastside Family Health Center: FOOD POISONING

WEBDr. Frank Dr. Frank joined Shoreline Family Medical Center in 1991 as an internist and continued there until 1999. In 1999, he established Eastside Family Health Center, and he has had a thriving practice ever since.

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Eastside Family Health Center: Malignant Melanoma

WEBAs noted, it is interesting that the pattern of sun exposure is unique to the risk of getting melanoma. This tends to be associated with intense, intermittent sun exposure and frequently occur in areas exposed only sporadically such as the back in …

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Eastside Family Health Center: 2015

WEBHow is it diagnosed? Here is a summary of the characteristic features used to make the diagnosis: morning stiffness for at least one hour and present for at least six weeks; swelling of three or more joints for at least six weeks; swelling of the wrist or hand joints for at least six weeks; hand x-rays that show erosions in a joint; nodules under the skin; or blood …

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Eastside Family Health Center: Men's Health Issue

WEBWhat is PSA? PSA stands for prostate specific antigen, which is a protein produced by both normal and cancerous cells of the prostate gland. It is used as a screening test for prostate cancer; although this is met with controversy.

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Eastside Family Health Center: Gout

WEBTweet Even though gout has gotten a lot of publicity in the recent years, it actually has been around a couple of thousand years. There are reports that mummies in Egypt had evidence of gout when dug up in the pyramids.

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Eastside Family Health Center: Abnormal Uterine Bleeding

WEBWhat causes abnormal bleeding? Abnormal bleeding from the uterus (anything not consistent with a regular menstrual cycle for a female) can be caused be a wide variety of things such as medications( contraceptives, blood thinners, steroids, antipsychotics, chemo, dilantin, some antibiotics, others), or benign growths such as polyps, thick uterine lining, …

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