Dr. James Robert Quirk M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
170 Morton Street Jamaica Plain MA, 02130About
Dr. James Quirk is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Jamaica Plain, MA. Dr. Quirk 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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Tufts Univ Sch of Med, Boston Ma 1988
Tufts University School of Medicine 1988
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