Dr. Shirley B Scott M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
428 Luisa Pl Santa Fe NM, 87505About
Dr. Shirley Scott is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Santa Fe, NM. Dr. Scott 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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Tulane Univ Sch of Med, New Orleans La 1978
Tulane University School of Medicine 1978
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