Far Left: Dr. Mark McTammany in one of the exam rooms at his offices in Melbourne. Left: One of several photo collages of babies delivered by McTammany that you’ll see in the hallways of his office.Below: Eileen Volpe, Ph.D., ARNP-C, with Dr. McTammany.
they know what their problem is because they have looked up (their symptoms) online,” McTammany lamented. “But the website does not have all the diag- nostic tools or the experience of a doctor, which can lead to conclusions that are potentially dangerous,” he says.
Filling the Need
McTammany makes life a little less
dangerous for Brevard’s less fortunate women by volunteering at the health department as part of a program set up by its former director, Dr. Heidar Heshmati, whom he describes as “a really great man.” “Under Dr. Heshmati’s plan, certain
doctors volunteer to do a shift every couple of weeks, and obstetrics patients
get assigned to certain doctors and continue to see them, so they build rela- tionships with their doctors. They don’t see someone different every appoint- ment, which is positive for patients and doctors. In return, the doctors get some protection from legal issues,” he explains.
On the Horizon
McTammany believes medicine will
“change immensely” over the next few decades, not least because of health care/ insurance reform. “Personally, I think we should have
national health care. If everyone in this country is going to have health care… that’s the only way to do it, the only way to ensure that everyone will get care. Of
course, we’re going to have to make dras- tic changes… and it would be expensive,” he says. “So why not raise people’s taxes 10 percent or so, so that everyone will have health insurance?” McTammany, who peppers conver-
sations with comments like, “I really love what I do” and “It’s great, isn’t it?” chuckles when asked if either of his “typical kids,” 15-year-old Alexanna or 13-year-old Oliver, both students at Cocoa Beach Junior-Senior High School, will become a third generation McTammany obstetrician-gynecologist. “My children don’t want to do what I do because of the time I spend at work. But I tell them I create instant families. What could be better than that?u
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