Dr. Richard T Sokolov MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
8631 W 3rd St Suite 1020e Los Angeles CA, 90048About
Dr. Richard Sokolov is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Sokolov 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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University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine 1984
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