Dr. Chen S Tan M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 110 Francis Street, Boston MA, 02215About
Dr. Chen Tan is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Tan 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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New York University School of Medicine 2002
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