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Generations of care
Daniel Konold, D.O. (’88)

By Anita Martin
Photo by John Sattler

 

The son of an osteopathic family physician, Daniel Konold, D.O. (’88), OU-COM clinical associate professor of family medicine, explored alternative fields, but he returned to his roots. “During my rotations, I fell in love with every specialty, but then found specialized care monotonous,” he says. “I love the variety of family practice.”

Konold traces some of the national disinclination toward family practice to the bottom line: specialties often have higher pay scales. “But if you work efficiently, you can make an excellent living and enjoy every minute of it,” he says, emphasizing the relationships he builds with patients and colleagues alike.

“I had one student, on the first day of his rotation, he told me he wanted to do anything but primary care,” Konold says. “A year later he asked me to write him a letter of recommendation for a family practice residency—said he changed his mind because he had so much fun during his rotation with us.”

Over the years, Konold’s practice, Canal Winchester Family Health & Pediatrics, has grown to include two pediatricians and four family physicians, providing ongoing, accessible, comprehensive care similar to a “medical home” model. More recently, they added “aesthetic services” such as vein removals and laser face rejuvenations to better serve the Baby Boomer population.

Still, he says, primary care has not changed much; it’s still about caring for patients. “Families that started with my dad 40 years ago are still seeing me. I am now treating grandchildren of patients my father delivered! How great is that?”

Robert Polite, D.O. (’99)

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