SEQUIM — In the year that Dr. David Wang has been practicing medicine on the North Olympic Peninsula, his chemotherapy patients have asked one question repeatedly: “When are you going to see us in Sequim?”
He’d always answer, “Soon,” he told the small crowd assembled Friday morning to break ground on two new Olympic Medical Center buildings in Sequim.
But, he added jokingly, he’d always say it with his fingers crossed behind his back, “because my daughter told me that if you do that, you would not be blamed.”
“I kept doing that until today,” Wang finished, because one of the buildings in an addition to the Olympic Medical Cancer Care Center will bring comprehensive cancer care to Sequim.
It’s a needed facility, he said.
“The smartest housewife cannot cook dinner without a kitchen,” he said.
“A medical oncologist cannot practice medical oncology without good facilities.”
Construction will now begin on the cancer addition and an ancillary services building, a $14.5 million endeavor that will complete a project in the 800 block of North Fifth Avenue that medical center leaders have been pursuing for some time.
There is also a physical therapy building on the site.
