Scott C. Wise, MD, is an award-winning author, speaker, and researcher in the fields of patient education and preventive health, as well as a full-time board-certified practicing physician. He graduated from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, academic home to four separate winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine. He did his residency training while serving as an officer in the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg, N.C., home of the 82nd Airborne Division. In 1995 he served as Chief Resident in Family Medicine and during his residency training was elected North Carolina Family Practice Resident of the Year. Since residency, Dr. Wise has practiced medicine in a variety of clinical settings to include a major urban indigent hospital, community hospitals, and private practice.
While serving as an officer in the military his various appointments included Director of Continuing Medical Education and Staff Physician for the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C., and Staff Physician for the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas. Since leaving military service, Dr. Wise has been Family Medicine Section Chief at Medical City Dallas Hospital and Medical Director of HealthWise Family Medicine in Frisco, Texas. His patients, former and current, include high-ranking military officers, professionals, homemakers, children, teenagers, actors, and radio personalities, as well as the indigent and poor. He has even helped treat as many as 100 patients per day in the remote mountain highlands of Honduras. Dr. Wise has recently left the private practice of medicine to become the Medical Director of a new clinic in the Dallas area that serves our U.S. military veterans.
Regardless of the practice setting, Dr. Wise’s focus has always been on patient education. His goal is not only to treat his patients’ illnesses, but also to educate patients about the causes and effects of disease, the purpose of specific medications chosen to treat disease, the reasons certain tests are ordered, and what the results of those tests mean to the patient. Dr. Wise believes that patient education is crucial in the era of managed health care. Appointment times are shorter, waiting times in physician offices are longer, and an unacceptable number of families find routine health care an unaffordable luxury. Dr. Wise understands that, now more than ever, families truly thirst for knowledge about their health, and he is leading the charge toward better-educated patients and dramatically improved physician-patient relationships. |
