Dr. Kim Marie Thorburn MD
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
1101 W College Ave Spokane WA, 99201About
Kim Thorburn is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Spokane, WA. Thorburn specializes in the health of individuals, communities, and particular populations, focusing on how to protect and maintain health as well as prevent disease and dangers. As a preventative health specialist, Thorburn participates in the planning and evaluation of health services, researches diseases in specific populations and helps manage health care organizations. Preventative medicine specialists can specialize further in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, or public health and general preventive medicine.
Education and Training
Univ of Ca, San Francisco, Sch of Med, San Francisco Ca 1976
University of California 1976
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Injury monitoring in US prison systems.
- Immunization strategies to control a community-wide hepatitis A epidemic.
- Mandatory testing.
- The corrections department: the forgotten branch of the mental health system.
- Physicians and the death penalty.
- Doctors and executions.
- When X rays show, must prison doctors tell?
- Injuries after use of the lacrimatory agent chloroacetophenone in a confined space.
- The oxyphil cell in abnormal parathyroid glands. A study of 114 cases.
- Penile spherules.
- Croaker's dilemma--should prison physicians serve prisons or prisoners?
- Nonclinical use of medical skills: beneficence lost?
- Health care in correctional facilities.
- Terry and the fly.
- Conditions in prisons.
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