Patients First Health Care Physicians Recognized In Recent Publication

Eighteen Patients First Health Care physicians have been named to the 2010 “Best Doctors List”, as recently published in the August edition of the St. Louis Magazine. The magazine’s annual issue features physicians from the St. Louis area included in the “Best Doctors in America” database, a nationwide directory of over 50,000 doctors in over 400 medical specialties .

The Patients first physicians included in this year’s list, by specialty, are:

Family Medicine: Kelly Bain, MD, Kim Colter, MD, Thomas Davis, MD, David Guss, MD, Craig Holzem, MD, Timothy Long, MD, Keith Ratcliff, MD, and James Turner, MD

Internal Medicine: Daniel Bauer, MD, Kennth Brightfield, MD, J. Dennis Saffa, MD, and M. Jay Walden, MD

Cardiology: Michael Beardslee, MD, and John Mohart, MD

Emergency Medicine: Nestor Shust, MD

General Surgery: James Cassat, MD

Orthopedic Surgery: David Chalk, MD and Thomas Matthews, MD

Patients First Health Care, a multi-specialty physician group, offers 73 physicians practicing in 20 specialties in 19 locations throughout east central Missouri. For more information refer to the company website at www.patientsfirsthc.com.