Dr. Shiv Sudhakar MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
4397 N Red Maple Ct Concord CA, 94521About
Dr. Shiv Sudhakar is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Concord, CA. Dr. Sudhakar specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
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Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Think Epic To Prevent An Epidemic
Bugs versus drugs. Really germs versus drugs. That’s my life. I’m an infectious disease specialist and I feel the world is really just divided into these two perennial enemies. The yin and yang of being a germ and trying to destroy them. We humans have it easy. We have soap. Bug spray. Hand...
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