Dr. Helen R Turner MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
2500 North State Street Department Of Medici Jackson MS, 39216About
Dr. Helen Turner is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Jackson, MS. Dr. Turner 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.
Education and Training
Univ Of Ms Sch Of Med 1979
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- An interview with 2005-06 MSMA president Helen R. Turner, MD, PhD. Interview by Karen A. Evers.
- Three wishes.
- Proud moment for Mississippi.
- New beginnlngs.
- Katrina aftermath.
- Did you wash your hands?
- The perfect Christmas gift.
- Mississippi's physician shortage.
- Mississippi Patient Safety Coalition.
- Forty five million and growing.
- Back to the future.
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