North Dayton Primary Care is home to Dr. Kadakia who has been in practice over 30 years. Let’s meet him now.
So, I always wanted to be a doctor because I had three brothers that were very bright and smart and they all went into colleges and they all got straight admission to medical school, but none of them continued to be a doctor. They all became engineers, so I decided I was the last chance. I was the youngest in the family, so I became a doctor.
Primary care medicine always appealed to Dr. Kadakia while in medical school.
See, I always wanted to take care of patient as a whole. I don’t want, like, heart and lung and brain. I want to do everything; I wanted integrated medicine, like, everything together. So, if I cannot provide a particular procedure, then I will send them to a specialist who is trained to do so. But I like comprehensive medicine.
Dr. Kadakia’s practice is based on preventive care.
So, my practice is 100% based on prevention. So, if you come here and I’ve never seen you, I will find out what you need at your age. I will ask your family history, your background, what other history to see what kind of risk you will have in the future to develop certain disease process. So, I will screen for all those stuff.
Engaging with his patients is very important to Dr. Kadakia as is education for diseases including diabetes and high blood pressure.
I tell you, a person who is informed about that medical condition, will be the best person to take care of because it will make your job a lot easier and that’s what I like the most, is I want to make them as knowledgeable about their disease process as possible, so we give all kinds of resources to them.
Establishing a trust with his patients is important to Dr. Kadakia. Trust, comfort and compassion are key elements to how he practices medicine.
Make them comfortable, show them compassion, and the patient will have a trust in you. That’s the best. I think in 33 years I have learned one thing: That patients half of their illness or suffering goes away if you communicate them with properly and show them how trust, how much they trust you, or what you going to do and how you going to take care of them, because, see, when the patient comes here, they are already suffering, so they are tense, uptight. They may have heard some bad stuff about the disease process or what or this doctor, what he is going to do, or what he is going to do. So, your job is to comfort and show some compassion and that’s the main thing I think.
Upon arriving at North Dayton Primary Care, a patient is greeted by a receptionist. In the examination room, the medical assistant will take their vital signs. Dr. Kadakia understands that no two patients are alike.
Each person gets different care. Some people are shy. Some are very talkative. Some are very open. Some are very fidgety, so you got to change your behavior, how you approach the patient.
At North Dayton Primary Care, several screenings and tests are able to be done right there in the office.
In our office, we, besides doing medical examination, we do blood work, we don’t do blood tests here, but we just collect the blood and send it to the lab. There is certain blood work, we can do it here in the office, like blood sugar, diabetic testing, urinalysis, blood in the stool – we can check those there. We have an EKG facility. We have pulmonary function tests, we do it here. If somebody needs injection of vitamin B12 or some flu shots or something when we have available, we do those things here.
Every one of Dr. Kadakia’s patients is given a password and instructions on logging onto MyChart, a patient’s own electronic tool for viewing their medical records, medications, history and more. North Dayton Primary Care is located at 7111 N. Main Street in Dayton. They are open 8 am to 5 pm and closed from noon to 1 pm for lunch.
