Dr. Lisaida Acevedo Perez, MD

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Get to know General Practitioner Dr. Lisaida Acevedo Perez, who serves patients in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Dr. Perez works with patients at Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center in Muskogee, Oklahoma. 

Being a trusted general practitioner, she specializes in family medicine and is skilled in preventing, diagnosing, and treating physical and psychological conditions for patients of all ages, such as the common cold, strep throat, bronchitis, the flu, high blood pressure, asthma, and diabetes, among others.

The Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System (EOVAHCS) serves more than 51,000 Veterans in 25 counties in eastern Oklahoma. EOVAHCS operates the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center in Muskogee, which offers a variety of primary and secondary levels of inpatient medical and surgical care, along with outpatient primary and consultative care in medicine, surgery and psychiatry. 

Regarding her educational background, Dr. Perez earned her medical degree from Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) in Puerto Rico. After graduation, she relocated to the United States, where she is now working and aiming to further her education.

In the medical profession, a general practitioner (GP) is a medical doctor who treats acute and chronic illnesses and provides preventive care and health education to patients. A GP manages types of illnesses that present in an undifferentiated way at an early stage of development and may require urgent intervention.

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