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Dr. Katherine Mcgowan MD

Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease

5/5(16)
1153 Centre Street Suite 4950 Faulkner Jamaica Plain MA, 02130
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Dr. Katherine Mcgowan is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Jamaica Plain, MA. Dr. Mcgowan 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

Tufts University School of Medicine 1975

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1153 Centre Street Suite 4950 Faulkner -
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
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Dr. Katherine Mcgowan MD has a rating of 5 out of 5 stars based on the reviews from 16 patients. FindaTopDoc has aggregated the experiences from real patients to help give you more insights and information on how to choose the best Infectious Disease Specialist in your area. These reviews do not reflect a providers level of clinical care, but are a compilation of quality indicators such as bedside manner, wait time, staff friendliness, ease of appointment, and knowledge of conditions and treatments.

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