Dr. Edwin Bashaw McClelland, MD?
Update this Profile
Dr. Edwin Bashaw McClelland, MD, Family Practitioner
Verified Doctor
We verify the medical license of each FindaTopDoc Verified Doctor to ensure that their license is active and they are in good medical standing.

Dr. Edwin Bashaw McClelland, MD

Family Practitioner

4/5(7)
2055 3rd Ave Suite Number 100 San Diego CA, 92101
Rating

4/5

About

Edwin B. McClelland, MD, is a family practitioner who diagnoses and treats patients as locum tenens physician throughout the state of California. He is a Covid-19 survivor and is planning to start a telehealth-based concierge practice taking care of COVID-19 patients. Dr. McClelland is also conducting ongoing research with BioResearch Laboratories in Preston, WA, into the bacterial pathogenesis of cancers. His impressive professional journey that spans forty-eight years, including twenty-three years as a Registered Professional Engineer, and twenty-five years as a physician. Prior to his current endeavors, he served in family practices in Yreka, Susanville, Madera, and Atwater, CA (2013 – 2020), and has had short assignments at small clinics in Red Bluff in January of 2021, San Diego/Mira Mesa, and Blythe/Brawley/Calexico, and Gridley, CA (2020 – 2021). He speaks basic medical Spanish and French.

Education and Training

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston medical degree 1995

Provider Details

MaleEnglish
Dr. Edwin Bashaw McClelland, MD
Dr. Edwin Bashaw McClelland, MD's Expert Contributions
  • Can you take Metoprolol and ibuprofen together?

    The standard of care is to monitor BP more frequently if a patient needing Ibuprofen is already on practically ANY blood pressure medicine. It's not just a problem with metoprolol. READ MORE

  • Can tonsillectomy be done under local anesthesia?

    Even if I were able to find an ENT doctor who would be willing to do a tonsillectomy on me with only local anesthesia, I would not go that route. Total anesthesia gives the surgeon 100% control over your airway so you can't wind up with your own blood in your lungs. Heck, I don't think the operation would be much fun for an awake patient. READ MORE

  • The palms of my hand severe?

    A dermatologist would have no trouble making the diagnosis. (To me, it looks like a variant of dyshidrotic eczema.) READ MORE

  • Fever and cough symptoms?

    I apologize for this slightly delayed response to your blog question. I am super busy with my “day job.” I am even forced to limit responses to questions that I suspect, in all humility, that I am especially qualified to answer. My main medical interest during this “Year of the Plague” has been COVID 19. *** Your symptoms with cough and fever and low O2 could be from the flu. Did the walk-in doc do a flu test? Your symptoms could also be framing a readily treatable bacterial sinusitis with a bad bronchitis. If I had strongly suspected that--especially if I had heard wheezing in your lungs--I would have given you a Z-pack. It's not a great sinus antibiotic, but it is more protective of your lungs than most antibiotics are. (Zithromax also has some anti-viral properties that most docs probably don't know about.) However, I am guessing that your doctor didn't hear wheezing, or pneumonia crackles, since you didn't mention that he or she also prescribed an inhaler For now, I am not able to second guess your walk-in provider. I cannot rule out a bacterial (or even fungal) component of your illness, and it is distinctly possible that it is what we doctors call a URI, i.e., a so-called Upper Respiratory Infection with a complicating feature of bronchitis headed toward becoming a Lower Respiratory Infection (again, a good reason for trying Z-pack). A blog post obviously does not facilitate a more specific determination of what is going on in your case. It does occur to me, however, that your problem might be only viral. (By a convention of medical terminology, by the way, the term URI is reserved for presumably virus-only infections.) URIs are usually self-resolving, but in some cases they are stubbornly slow to resolve. The “Standard of Care” is for the provider who can’t make a bacterial diagnosis is to give you general advice and to suggest mainly over-the-counter meds and essentially just to urge you to wait and see how things unfold in your case. You will either improve or you won’t improve. You might actually get worse, of course. Doctors often just make educated guesses. They try one med or another based on shrewd guesswork. An in-person follow-up visit with a regular provider, if it becomes necessary, would ordinarily be the key to your provider’s management of your case according to the Standard of Care. *** Now, if you have you do have a URI--again, only viral--the possibilities get kind of gnarly--because COVID 19 itself starts as a URI. What I am ultimately saying is that, based on the limited info that you have given me, you have to consider the possibilty that you do have a COVID 19 infection with a false negative test thus far. I have seen this happen. I appreciate the fact that your blog inquiry suggests that you are inclined to believe that it’s not COVID-19, and you are probably correct about that. However, following are some medical facts that we ought to think about: In the first place, your vaccinated status definitely does not mean that you surely don’t have a COVID 19 infection as the present cause of your fever and cough and low oxygen. You probably already realize that (as seen in the fact that you went to the trouble of taking the home test for COVID 19!). The truth is that the currently available COVID vaccines rank among the least effective vaccines we have ever distributed. (Some of the flu vaccines in recent years have been pretty low in efficacy, but the COVID vaccines are especially discouraging.) It turns out that our COVID vaccines don’t even meet the FDA standards set for the required efficacy for any vaccine being deployed. The standard for approving the use of a given vaccine is 50% efficacy against getting the infection during an epidemic wave. The last figures I recall being published for our vaccines’ protection against getting the COVID 19 infection ranged from only 36% to only 42%. The Delta variant appears to be blowing right past the vaccines pretty often. This is why the CDC has even admitted that the vaccines are not meaningfully slowing the spread of the infections. The mantra that the unvaccinated folks are the super-spreaders is more than a little dubious. It turns out that several of the world’s countries having the HIGHEST percentages of ALREADY FULLY VACCINATED citizens have recently been seeing startling INCREASES in the number of new cases per hundred thousand of population. One such country is Ireland—a nation with a much higher vaccination percentage than most of the nations in the world. Ireland’s New Case stats have been pretty awful in recent weeks. What makes Ireland’s situation even weirder is that Ireland has one county that has achieved an astonishing vaccination coverage of 98.8% of adult citizens—the highest of all the counties in Ireland—and yet that very county has recently recorded the highest number of new cases of any county in Ireland. We have been unable to account for this mess, but something is going haywire. Our public health agencies and our media have doubled down on booster shots and started pushing for the vaccination of little kids and are even trying to mandate full vaccination of practically everyone in the U.S.—including even people who clearly do not need it. (Contrary to what we sometimes hear, the natural immunity that a COVID 19 survivor has is both long-lasting and potent in preventing re-infection. Something like 90 studies around the world have shown this. By way of a full, medically open-minded disclosure, I need to be sure to mention an evidently real benefit for our currently available vaccines: It is pretty clear that the person who gets fully vaccinated and then winds up with a breakthrough infection has a dramatically improved prognosis for the course of his disease. (This is nothing for the anti-vaxxers to scoff at even if some of their other concerns about the vaccines need to be honestly addressed.) How can this be so? How can a vaccine be pretty poor in the usual (i.e., standard) matter of vaccine efficacy yet be pretty good in slowing down the disease when it breaks through? I have ideas of my own, but they are beyond the scope of this email. What I mainly want to say is that your home test result could have been a FALSE negative. There is no cause for alarm here, but I want you to realize that the home test might not reveal the presence of a genuinely ongoing COVID 19 infection for the (possible? likely?) reason that you have at least a partial (vaccination-induced) immunity that is currently suppressing the virion count far enough to put that count below the so-called “detection limit” of the home test. I would specifically point out that we do see a fair number of false negatives with the home tests (and with the quicky tests of the same type used in most hospital Emergency Departments). A follow-up PCR is much more sensitive and thus almost certain to reveal the COVID 19 breakthrough infection that the home test missed. One of the sharp hospitalists where I am currently working has pointed that a positive home test is obviously to be believed, whereas a negative test for a patient with COVID 19 symptoms is not necessarily to be trusted. One of our ED doctors has declared that if the array of COVID 19 symptoms are present, then we have to assume we have a COVID 19 case on our hands unless and until a PCR test comes back negative. That’s just good medicine. In short, the point of my unabashedly speculative discussion about the vaccine is that the partial benefits of the vaccine might also screw up the home test. This would tend to make “super-spreaders” out of vaccinated individuals who are pretty sure they just have a “bad cold.” *** Finally, if you are still sick by the time you read this belated response to your original inquiry, you should at least go to a good Family Practice clinic or Urgent Care to see a provider. If you are terribly sick (e.g. badly short of breath), please go straight to an Emergency Department. If you haven't gotten a flu test, you need to get one. If that is negative, you definitely need a PCR test for COVID 19 Good luck and stay safe Edwin McClelland, M.D. READ MORE

  • I have a cellulitis healing question?

    The short answer is yes. READ MORE

Awards

  • Selected by America’s Best Doctors for online recognition as one of the Top Doctors in Merced, California Year  
  • Kuldip Singh Memorial Award for Excellence in Immunology Research (UTMB, 1992) Year  
  • Tau Beta Pi and Omega Chi Epsilon (engineering honor societies comparable to Phi Beta Kappa in Arts and Sciences) Year  
  • National Merit Scholarship 1969  
  • Selected for the NSF’s Summer Science Training Program for High-Ability Secondary School Students, University of Texas 1968  

Internships

  • Central Texas Medical Foundation1996Internal medicine

Dr. Edwin Bashaw McClelland, MD's Practice location

Edwin McClelland

2055 3rd Ave Suite Number 100 -
San Diego, CA 92101
Get Direction
New patients: 619-233-8018
Fax: 619-233-8020

Edwin McClelland, MD

3733 San Jose Avenue #5 -
Merced, CA 95348
Get Direction
New patients: 858-531-0740

Castle Family Health Centers

3605 Hospital Rd Suite H -
Atwater, CA 95301
Get Direction
New patients: 858-531-0740

Dr. Edwin Bashaw McClelland, MD's reviews

(7)
Write Review
America's Best Doctor

Patient Experience with Dr. McClelland


4.0

Based on 7 reviews

Dr. Edwin Bashaw McClelland, MD has a rating of 4 out of 5 stars based on the reviews from 7 patients. FindaTopDoc has aggregated the experiences from real patients to help give you more insights and information on how to choose the best Family Practitioner in your area. These reviews do not reflect a providers level of clinical care, but are a compilation of quality indicators such as bedside manner, wait time, staff friendliness, ease of appointment, and knowledge of conditions and treatments.

Media Releases

Get to know Family Physician Dr. Edwin Bashaw McClelland, who serves patients throughout the State of California.

Dr. McClelland is a locum tenens physician in the field of family medicine spanning California. From July 4th of 2021, he has been serving a three-month family practice assignment in Gridley.

Prior to his current endeavours, he served in family practices in Yreka, Susanville, Madera, and Atwater from August of 2013 to December of 2020. He then completed short assignments at small clinics in Red Bluff in January of 2021, in San Diego/Mira Mesa from March 29th to April 23th 2021, and in Blythe/Brawley/Calexico from May to June of 2021. The six-year family practice stint in Atwater included a heavy emphasis in minor emergency care for walk-in patients at the Atwater facility’s busy Urgent Care Clinic.

After graduating with his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1973, Dr. McClelland had a distinguished career as a Registered Professional Engineer. While he was updating his nine-page consulting resume in 1990, he decided to switch careers. He wanted to apply his disciplined technical background to the practice of medicine. He soon went on to earn his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 1995. He next completed an Internship in Internal Medicine at Central Texas Medical Foundation, Brackenridge Hospital, in 1996. At the age of 45, then, he embarked on an a broadly practical career involving Urgent Care, Family Medicine and Integrative Medicine. 

Dr. McClelland has served as a contract physician at Partners Urgent Care in San Diego, California (2011 through November of 2012); the owner/physician of San Diego Immunotherapy (February of 2004 to August of 2013); a physician at Livingston Foundation Medical Center in San Diego (September of 2003 to February of 2004); a physician at Austin Minor Emergency Clinic (January of 2001 to 2002); a physician at ProMed – all Austin locations (November of 1998 to September of 2003); a physician at St. David’s MediCentres (all locations), Austin, Texas (December of 1997 through October of 1998); and a locum Tenens physician at rural public clinics in Central Texas and two family practices in Austin (October of 1997 to December of 1997). 

His industrial roles included the technical manager of Austin Operations at Dames & Moore (1989-1991), providing direction of engineering programs and expert services to environmental attorneys (U.S. and international); a senior consulting engineer at Espey, Huston & Associates (1981-1989), providing environmental engineering assessments of health effects of toxic releases, expert services in cases involving environmental law, and processing design and safety assessments; and as a process engineer/production supervisor at E.I. DuPont Company in Orange, Texas (1973-1981), involved in engineering design and process start-up (placing extremely heavy emphasis upon safety).

With special training in emergency medicine, Dr. McClelland holds certifications in Advanced Cardiac Life Support through the American Heart Association and in Advanced Trauma Life Support through the American College of Surgeons. 

Currently, he is conducting ongoing research with BioResearch Laboratories (Preston, Washington) into the bacterial pathogenesis of cancers.

Family medicine is a medical specialty devoted to comprehensive health care for people of all ages. The specialist is called a family physician or family doctor. A family physician is often the first person a patient sees when seeking healthcare services. They examine and treat patients with a wide range of conditions and refer those with serious ailments to a specialist or appropriate facility.

Among Dr. McClelland’s professional and scholastic honors include: Selected by America’s Best Doctors for online recognition as one of the Top Doctors in Merced, California; Kuldip Singh Memorial Award for Excellence in Immunology Research (UTMB, 1992); Tau Beta Pi and Omega Chi Epsilon (engineering honor societies comparable to Phi Beta Kappa in Arts and Sciences); National Merit Scholarship, 1969; and Selected for the NSF’s Summer Science Training Program for High-Ability Secondary School Students, University of Texas, 1968 (original microbiology research).

On a more personal note, Dr. McClelland speaks very basic medical Spanish and even basic French.  (He is also now studying ancient Greek in his spare time.)

On an especially important personal level, Dr. McClelland “is a COVID-19 survivor from March 2021 with a strong IgG antibody titer.”  He is currently planning to start a Telehealth-based concierge practice taking care of COVID-19 patients. Dr. McClelland has spent several hundred hours studying the pathology and treatment of COVID 19, and coupled with his personal experience of the infection, he has successfully used this knowledge and experience to treat a sizeable number of COVID 19 victims.

Additional Information

Prior to enrolling in medical school, Dr. McClelland acquired a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1973 and enjoyed a remarkable career as a Registered Professional Engineer for seventeen years.

Recommended Articles

  • What Causes Back Pain?

    Back pain is a painful condition that can stop you from carrying on with your normal duties. It is impossible for a normal person to stay still at all times; every now and then we find ourselves either bending, stretching or twisting. Tests and DiagnosisDuring the first visit to your doctor, a...

  • What Is Ringworm?

    Ringworm, or tinea, refers to a fungal infection of the skin. The term ‘worm’ is derived from the old belief that the disease was caused by a worm. The term ‘ring’ refers to the characteristic ring-shaped patches produced by the fungus on the skin. Infection is often found in the outer layer...

  • What Is Back Pain: Get The Facts

    Every now and then, you hear people complaining about constant back pain. According to statistics, about 80% of Americans will suffer from back pain at one point of their life.Back pain can be caused by many things, but it is most commonly triggered by incorrect sitting or standing positions, not...

  • What Could Uncontrollable Shivering Mean?

    Uncontrollable shivering is characterized by the rapid shifting between muscle relaxation and contraction. It is through these contractions that the body warms itself up when exposed to cold. Shivering is not always accompanied by fever. In some cases, shivering may occur before the onset of...

  • Causes, Treatment, and Prevention of Petechiae

    Petechiae are tiny dots that appear as red, brown, or purple in color beneath the skin. They are usually seen in clusters on the stomach, buttocks, arms, and legs. However, they may also appear inside the mouth or on the eyelids. Petechiae may indicate different conditions, which can range from...

  • What is an Exercise-Induced Migraine?

    What is an Exercise-Induced Migraine?Exercises have been recommended by many doctors and lifestyle therapists as a healthy way of living. Unfortunately these exercises can have side effects such as migraines.Compromising on fitness is not often a preferred option but oft one chosen due to health...

Nearest Hospitals

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO MEDICAL CENTERl

200 WEST ARBOR DRIVE SAN DIEGO CA 92103

Head north on 3rd Avenue 136 ft
Turn right onto Hawthorn Street 557 ft
Turn left onto 5th Avenue 1.6 mi
Turn left onto Washington Street 661 ft
Continue straight onto West Washington Street 405 ft
Turn right onto 1st Avenue 1408 ft
Turn left onto West Arbor Drive 262 ft
Turn right onto Front Street 515 ft
Turn left onto Dickinson Street 253 ft
You have arrived at your destination, on the left

SCRIPPS MERCY HOSPITALl

4077 5TH AVE SAN DIEGO CA 92103

Head north on 3rd Avenue 136 ft
Turn right onto Hawthorn Street 557 ft
Turn left onto 5th Avenue 1.6 mi
Turn left onto Washington Street 356 ft
Turn right onto 4th Avenue 720 ft
Turn right onto Lewis Street 391 ft
You have arrived at your destination, on the right

SHARP CORONADO HOSPITAL AND HLTHCR CTRl

250 PROSPECT PLACE CORONADO CA 92118

Head north on 3rd Avenue 136 ft
Turn right onto Hawthorn Street 279 ft
Turn right onto 4th Avenue 1914 ft
Turn left onto Cedar Street 283 ft
Turn left onto 5th Avenue 172 ft
Take the ramp on the right towards I 5 South 1730 ft
Merge left onto San Diego Freeway (I 5) 1.6 mi
Continue straight onto San Diego Freeway I-5 (I-5) 906 ft
Take the ramp on the right towards SR-75 South: Coronado 2.3 mi
Take the ramp on the right 225 ft
Go straight onto Glorietta Boulevard 341 ft
Turn left onto 3rd Street 607 ft
Turn right onto Soledad Place 255 ft
You have arrived at your destination, on the right

EMANUEL MEDICAL CENTERl

825 DELBON AVE TURLOCK CA 95382

3750 San Jose Ave, Merced, CA 95348, USA
Head south on San Jose Ave toward Rensselaer Dr
0.2 mi
Turn right onto W Yosemite Ave
1.2 mi
Turn left onto CA-59 S/N State Hwy 59
1.6 mi
Turn right onto W 16th St
0.3 mi
Merge onto CA-99 N via the ramp to Sacramento
19.6 mi
Take exit 209 for Golden State Blvd
0.3 mi
Continue onto S Golden State Blvd
3.1 mi
Turn right onto Minerva St
0.2 mi
Slight left onto N Minaret Ave
0.4 mi
Continue onto Bonita Ave
440 ft
Turn right onto E Olive Ave
0.9 mi
Turn right
0.1 mi
825 Delbon Ave, Turlock, CA 95382, USA

MERCY MEDICAL CENTERl

333 MERCY AVENUE MERCED CA 95340

3750 San Jose Ave, Merced, CA 95348, USA
Head south on San Jose Ave toward Rensselaer Dr
0.2 mi
Turn left onto W Yosemite Ave
0.8 mi
Turn left onto G St
0.6 mi
Turn right
397 ft
Turn right
276 ft
333 Mercy Ave, Merced, CA 95340, USA

MEMORIAL HOSPITAL LOS BANOSl

520 WEST I ST LOS BANOS CA 93635

3750 San Jose Ave, Merced, CA 95348, USA
Head south on San Jose Ave toward Rensselaer Dr
0.2 mi
Turn left onto W Yosemite Ave
0.3 mi
Turn right onto M St/Veterans BlvdPass by El Pollo Loco (on the right in 0.9 mi)
3.2 mi
Turn left onto W Childs Ave
0.3 mi
Turn right onto CA-59 S
14.0 mi
Keep right at the fork, follow signs for CA-152 W/Los Banos and merge onto CA-152 WPass by Taco Bell (on the right in 19.9 mi)
20.0 mi
Turn right onto I StPass by Mechanics Bank - Los Banos Branch (on the left in 0.5 mi)
1.2 mi
Turn rightDestination will be on the right
144 ft
520 W I St, Los Banos, CA 93635, USA

EMANUEL MEDICAL CENTERl

825 DELBON AVE TURLOCK CA 95382

Head east 80 ft
Turn left 73 ft
Turn left 338 ft
Turn right onto Hospital Avenue 1051 ft
Turn right onto Airdrome Entry 401 ft
Continue straight onto North Buhach Road 880 ft
Turn right onto East Bellevue Road 1.1 mi
Continue straight onto Bellevue Road 1.7 mi
Continue straight onto West Bellevue Road 4337 ft
Continue straight onto Westside Boulevard 1569 ft
Take the ramp on the right 2079 ft
Merge left onto CA 99 13.4 mi
Take the ramp on the right towards Lander Avenue 1782 ft
Keep right at the fork 158 ft
Go straight onto Lander Avenue (J14) 1.2 mi
Go straight onto Lexington Avenue (J14) 347 ft
Continue slightly right onto West Olive Avenue (J14) 926 ft
Turn left onto North Golden State Boulevard (J14) 1396 ft
Turn right onto Geer Road (J14) 3133 ft
Turn right onto East Hawkeye Avenue 2624 ft
Turn left onto North Olive Avenue 1164 ft
Turn right onto Delbon Avenue 538 ft
You have arrived at your destination, on the left

MERCY MEDICAL CENTERl

333 MERCY AVENUE MERCED CA 95340

Head east 80 ft
Turn left 73 ft
Turn left 338 ft
Turn right onto Hospital Avenue 1051 ft
Turn right onto Airdrome Entry 401 ft
Turn left onto Santa Fe Drive (J7) 5.0 mi
Turn left onto Snelling Highway (CA 59) 4657 ft
Turn right onto Yosemite Avenue 5234 ft
Continue straight onto West Yosemite Avenue 5069 ft
Turn left onto G Street 3243 ft
Turn right 526 ft
Turn right 220 ft
You have arrived at your destination, straight ahead

MEMORIAL HOSPITAL LOS BANOSl

520 WEST I ST LOS BANOS CA 93635

Head east 80 ft
Turn left 73 ft
Turn left 338 ft
Turn right onto Hospital Avenue 1051 ft
Turn right onto Airdrome Entry 401 ft
Continue straight onto North Buhach Road 1.8 mi
Make a slight left onto Ashby Road 745 ft
Turn right onto North Buhach Road 2.3 mi
Turn right onto McSwain Road (CA 140) 15.2 mi
Turn left onto Lander Avenue (CA 165) 11.6 mi
Continue straight onto Mercey Springs Road (CA 165) 4.4 mi
Continue straight onto South Mercey Springs Road (SR 165) 1.4 mi
Continue straight onto Mercey Springs Road (CA 165) 3616 ft
Turn right onto East Pacheco Boulevard (CA 33) 1017 ft
Turn right onto H Street 5135 ft
Turn left onto 2nd Street 410 ft
Continue right onto West I Street 1616 ft
You have arrived at your destination, on the right