Dr. Brian S Alper M.D.
Family Practitioner
10 Estes St Ipswich MA, 01938About
Dr. Brian Alper is a family practitioner practicing in Ipswich, MA. Dr. Alper specializes in comprehensive health care for people of all ages. In addition to diagnosing and treating illnesses, family practitioners also put focus on preventative care with routine checkups, tests and personalized coaching on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Dr. Alper possesses immense general knowledge on maintaining health and today, family practitioners provide more care for the underserved and rural populations than any other medical specialty.
Education and Training
MCP HAHNEMANN UNIV (FORMERLY ALLEGHENY UNIV) 1996
Board Certification
Family MedicineAmerican Board of Family MedicineABFM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Inaccurate Web site review.
- Does treatment of acute herpes zoster prevent or shorten postherpetic neuralgia?
- SOAP: solutions to often asked problems. Choice of antihistamines for urticaria.
- Using ferritin levels to determine iron-deficiency anemia in pregnancy.
- Pneumococcal vaccine recommendations.
- Assistance for patients who cannot afford medications.
- Symptoms don't predict response to antibiotics.
- DynaMed is evidence based.
- Practical evidence-based Internet resources.
- Response to proposal for use of SORT evidence levels.
- Integrative healthcare: arriving at a definition.
- Using systematic literature surveillance.
- Physicians answer more clinical questions and change clinical decisions more often with synthesized evidence: a randomized trial in primary care.
- Usefulness of online medical information.
- Review of online evidence-based practice point-of-care information summary providers: response by the publisher of DynaMed.
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