Dr. Stephen Smith MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
189 EAGLE ROCK AVE ROSELAND NJ, 07068About
Dr. Stephen Smith is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Newark, NJ. Dr. Smith 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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Yale Univ Sch of Med, New Haven Ct 1989
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