PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center has welcomed three new doctors to the area.
Drs. Gur Raj Deol, Christopher Frank and Rienera Sivesind were formally introduced to the seven OMC commissioners Wednesday.
Deol, a pulmonologist, joined Olympic Medical Physicians Specialty Clinic in Sequim last year.
“We have lived here for seven months now,” Deol said.
“I have two little kids. We have liked the area more every passing week.”
Deol was recently published in Chest, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians.
He was the primary author of a January article “Ultrasound Accurately Reflects the Jugular Venous Examination but Underestimates Central Venous Pressure.”
Family practice doctors Frank and Sivesind joined Family Medicine of Port Angeles last fall.
“We have found this to be an overwhelmingly wonderful community in so many ways — the geography, the things there are to do — it’s a beautiful area,” Sivesind said.
“Everyone’s been real welcoming,” Frank added.
Olympic Medical Center Chief Executive Officer Eric Lewis said there is still a shortage of primary-care physicians in Clallam County.
“We want to recruit more,” Lewis said.
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