So that means anything from the kidneys, ureter, bladder on out of the body. As a Urologist, I see patients 18 and up with issues of the genital urinary tract. I left the area to go to medical school at the University of Colorado in Denver, Colorado and then completed a residency in Urology at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis. You're not sitting behind a desk all the time and you can, you know, actually see tangible ways that you're helping people. You get to do something different every day. I went into medicine for the same reason I would hope anyone would go into medicine for just the desire to help people. The nutritionist from the metabolic clinic met me out there, at the finish line, that will make me cry. I ran my first 10K and that was really exhilarating. There's not a day that goes by that I'm not out there even in the rain. I never was walking or running or exercising before.
I was in a very high risk for heart issues and I'm no longer in any of those categories. I've lost asthma, and high blood pressure, and I was pre-diabetic, and I'm no longer pre-diabetic. I have gone from a size 22 to a size eight. The patience and the guidance, the feeling of you're not alone, the support that they give you. You can ask them questions that you may seem as silly. And so you continue with this wonderful team at the metabolic clinic. And it's kind of an interesting process because there's ups and downs throughout the whole thing and it's not that you're not losing weight, it's just that your body's adjusting to different things. It just takes that away from you, that guilt. Then you go and see the doctor and he sits and informs you of what your body's been doing. So I go to the doctor and I sit down with the nutritionist and she goes through information and basically tells you what their clinic is about. I was referred by my Polyclinic provider to the actual Polyclinic Lifestyle and Metabolic Medicine Clinic, and they are the team that has helped me gain my health back. And I was feeling really overwhelmed because I'd tried so many different things for my weight, and my high blood pressure, and asthma, and all of these different things that were going on, and I would try, and try to lose weight, and I couldn't. I had been experiencing weight gain and several different health complications for about 10 years progressively, and probably over a 20 year period of time. Hi, I'm Stephanie Coleman and I highly recommend the Lifestyle and Metabolic Medicine clinic. If you're looking for a provider who is really passionate about medicine, really enjoys getting to know people and also really wants to support you in whatever that means for maintaining your health or improving your health then I might be the right provider for you. It's got wonderful outdoors so I've loved that part of my life here.
And Seattle's really a great place for all of those things. So when I'm not at work, I really enjoy being outside whether that's going for runs or going on the water and paddle boarding or going for hikes. My hope is that when patients come to see me they feel like I'm listening and that I'm hearing them and that they have the autonomy to make decisions about their own health and their own bodies and that I can provide the information that they need in order to make those informed decisions. And then I also see them in the hospital delivering babies. Also, as a obstetrics provider, I manage pregnancy and prenatal care, so I can see people at the very start of their pregnancy and for routine visits for prenatal care. I see everyone from newborn babies to pregnant people to older adults. It's a wonderful place to practice medicine and I've really enjoyed growing my practice here. From there, came to Seattle for my residency training in family medicine and have really enjoyed staying here in Seattle. So I am a true Wisconsinite and stayed in Madison Wisconsin for my medical degree after I finished my bachelor's and master's degrees. But ultimately, through volunteering at hospitals and really having more direct patient care, did I realize that actually being a medical provider was what was most fulfilling for me. While I was growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin I witnessed a lot of health disparities and when I went to college I was studying biomedical engineering and originally thought that that was kind of the branch of medicine and healthcare that was the best fit for me. Hi, I'm Kevin Beene, a family medicine with obstetrics doctor.
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