With expansion in its eyes, Clarkston Medical Group has been adding physicians each year as they anticipate a move to a medical campus with McLaren Health Care Corporation. Dr. Christina Joslin D.O., of Rochester, joined the group as a doctor of family medicine about one month ago.
Joslin has been practicing medicine for five years and joins CMG after working at a private practice in Washington Township. Joslin enjoys the flexible scheduling and ‘strong hospital-based medicine? CMG can provide.
Joslin enjoys communicating with patients and curing them after getting to know the family all together.
‘It’s a privilege that people come and they’re willing to tell you very intimate details and trust you with that knowledge and expect you to take that information and help them,? she said.
‘People come in with physical complaints, but you don’t understand the psychological picture behind that and why they’re having all these symptoms where it really could be psychological, emotional or mental and how all of that factors in, especially from a family practice standpoint.
‘You’re able to help the family along if you know several members of the family instead of being in a sub-specialty.?
A mother of four children, Joslin said having children has helped her while practicing medicine.
‘Children are not little adults. They express their pains differently. They can’t tell you their stomach hurts the same way and they don’t express themselves the same way adults do,? she said.
‘Listening to my own kids and figuring out what they’re really talking about definitely helps me with speed and accuracy with pediatrics.?
For Joslin, a 1999 medical school graduate from Michigan State University, a change of heart got her into medicine as an undergrad at University of Michigan. While at UM studying to become a chemical engineer, she discovered she wanted to use her personality in her line of work, something not easily done in a cubicle.
‘I decided that I had much more of an interest talking to people, in that human aspect rather than working on chemical formulas,? Joslin said.
‘Sitting and working on a formula all day wasn’t my thing.?
CMG’s expansion with the McLaren project, where patients will be able to get several different treatments accomplished in the same campus, was also a big prospect for Joslin coming to the practice.
‘At most places, you’re sending people everywhere,? she said.
After physical exams, patients realistically only get to half of the places they were assigned to go by their physician because it becomes too burdensome, Joslin said.
‘This is huge to have so many sub-specialties under one roof,? she said.
Joslin’s husband Anthony is an emergency room doctor at Beaumont Hospital in Troy. The couple moved back to Michigan from North Carolina two years ago after Anthony finished his work with the armed forces. The couple enjoys traveling and entertaining friends.
Christina, a running enthusiast, is looking to get back into the sport with a triathlon or a half-marathon.
Clarkston Medical Group, 6770 Dixie Highway, can be reached at 248-625-2273.