Duke Primary Care Wakelon Internal Medicine has the advanced internal medicine specialists needed to provide and coordinate care for all of our Zebulon adult patients.
From long-term medical care and women’s health care to blood drawing and laboratory services, our primary care providers are committed to delivering comprehensive care to all of our patients.
Comprehensive Primary Care Services
Examples of the services we offer our patients include:
- Complete physicals: Adult yearly exams, exams of immunization needs, preventive medicine needs, and indicated labs for diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension, and other conditions; advice on improving and maintaining health, exercise, weight control, osteoporosis prevention, etc.
- Acute illness management: Includes sick visits, infections, and strains
- Chronic illness management: Includes diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, dementia, and hypothyroid
- Long-term medical care: Continuous care for hundreds of conditions including asthma, diabetes, acne, esophageal reflux, heart disease, insomnia, atrial fibrillation, stroke, allergic rhinitis, erectile dysfunction (ED), depression, COPD, incontinence, hypothyroidism, hypertension, and excessive weight
- Geriatric health care:
- Specific needs of adults age 65 and up
- Medication management
- Nutrition
- Mental health
- Fall prevention
- Quality of life
- Women’s health care:
- Well-woman exams
- PAP smears
- Breast exams
- Family planning
- On-site blood drawing and laboratory services: Includes rapid strep test, diabetes tests, and urinalysis
- Coumadin clinics: Blood thinner monitoring
- Office tests: Includes on-site electrocardiograms (EKGs), pulmonary function tests, and vision testing
- Disease prevention strategies:
- Cancer risk reduction: Screening for breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, and skin cancer
- Immunizations
- Smoking cessation
- Cardiac and stroke risk reduction
- Obesity management
- Health promotion:
- Vascular health to decrease risk of stroke, heart attack, peripheral artery disease, and other conditions
- Healthy lifestyles
- Exercise and healthy food choice recommendations
- Check-ups for health promotion and disease prevention
- Medicare annual wellness visit
- Welcome to Medicare exam
- Coordination of care with specialists
Whether you’re in need of a complete physical or women’s health care -- Duke Primary Care Wakelon Internal Medicine Mill is dedicated to improving the health of people in the Zebulon community.
Wakelon Internal Medicine Primary Care Appointments
Call our Zebulon clinic at 919-269-0390 to learn more about our primary care services or to schedule an appointment with our primary care doctor. Visit healthview.dukehealth.org to schedule a primary care appointment online.
Patient forms are available online to make your visit to our clinic more convenient.