An Occupational Medicine Specialist
Nurse practitioner Karon Garrett specializes in occupational medicine. She offers treatment and follow-up care for work-related injuries. She also provides family medicine services.
Karon treats:
- Blood cancer
- Breast cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Stroke
For work-related injuries, Karon offers:
- Initial evaluation of the injury
- Testing and treatment
- Follow-up care to help worker regain function
Her other services include:
- Obtaining a patient's medical history
- Performing physical exams
- Ordering, performing and interpreting lab and diagnostic tests
- Prescribing medications
- Applying and removing casts and sutures
- Treating common illnesses
- Health education and counseling
- Rapid evaluation, intervention and follow-up care for individuals who suffer an injury at their workplace
- Assisting workers to return to their highest possible level of function
- If returning to original work is not possible, she will work to find a reasonable alternative for the patient and the employer
Speaks: English