Dr. Scott W Mercer M.D.
Family Practitioner
320 Santa Fe Dr Suite 205 Encinitas CA, 92024Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Scott Mercer is a family practitioner practicing in Encinitas, CA. Dr. Mercer 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. Mercer 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
Univ of Miami Sch of Med, Miami Fl 1980
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine 1980
Board Certification
Family MedicineAmerican Board of Family MedicineABFM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
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- A qualitative study of general practitioners' and practice nurses' attitudes to obesity management in primary care.
- The development of resistance to the lipogenic effects of insulin in brown and white adipose tissue of spontaneously type II diabetic male CBA/Ca mice.
- Antihypertensive drug class and dyslipidemia: risk association among Chinese patients with uncomplicated hypertension.
- Patterns of antihypertensive prescribing, discontinuation and switching among a Hong Kong Chinese population from over one million prescriptions.
- Request for slimming tablets.
- Does vocational training in family medicine have an impact on antibiotic prescribing pattern?
- Equity of access to quality of care in family medicine.
- A comparison of general practitioners prescribing of gluten-free foods for the treatment of coeliac disease with national prescribing guidelines.
- Vascular comorbidities in younger people with dementia: a cross-sectional population-based study of 616 245 middle-aged people in Scotland.
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for generalised anxiety disorder and health service utilisation among Chinese patients in primary care: a randomised, controlled trial.
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction in Parkinson's disease: a systematic review.
- Comorbidities in adults with asthma: Population-based cross-sectional analysis of 1.4 million adults in Scotland.
- The regulation of lipogenesis in vivo in the lactating mammary gland of the rat during the starved-refed transition. Studies wtih acarbose, a glucosidase inhibitor.
- The influence of starvation and natural refeeding on the rate of triacylglycerol/fatty acid substrate cycling in brown adipose tissue and different white adipose sites of the rat in vivo. The role of insulin and the sympathetic nervous system.
Treatments
- Moles
- Actinic Keratosis
- Skin Cancer
- Pinched Nerve
- Birthmark
- Diverticulosis
- Pain
- Vascular Disease
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