Sagar Nigwekar, MD, and Jim Sutton, RPA-C

Help For Patients; Top 5 Questions to Ask Your Doctor,

Every minute of every day, in thousands of doctor’s offices across the country, there is information people should know about their medical condition that is not being discussed. People often forget key questions or sometimes don’t even know the right questions to ask.* Top 5 Questions to Ask Your Doctor* alleviates that problem for any patient.

Sagar Nigwekar, MD, and Jim Sutton, RPA-C, come on the show to discuss their book Top 5 Questions to Ask Your Doctor and the ways that patients can use it to be their own best advocate.

Sagar Nigwekar is a practicing Board Certified Internal Medicine physician at Rochester General Hospital. He graduated from the University of Mumbai, India, in 1999 and subsequently completed his post-graduate training at the Rochester General Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program. He was Chief Medical Resident at Rochester General Hospital in 2005. Since then he has been teaching medical students and resident physicians at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He has recently been selected to join Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital Nephrology Division (Harvard Medical School). He also conducts translational and clinical research in the areas of hypertension and kidney disease.

Jim Sutton has been a practicing Family Practice Physician Assistant for 23 years. He graduated from the University of Washington Physician Assistant program in 1987 and completed a residency in Pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine in 1993. He has spent his career serving vulnerable patients in Los Angeles, the Middle East and now in urban Rochester, New York, for Rochester General Health System. He is an Adjunct Clinical Professor for Rochester Institute of Technology and teaches Physician Assistant students in family medicine at Clinton Family Health Center in Rochester.

Melanie Cole, M.S.

6 / 16 / 2010