Mark L. Timmerman, MD, FAAFP

Moving to a new part of the country meant we needed to find a vehicle of medical support. So in 1990 we found Dr. Mark Zimmerman and have had the pleasure over all these years of superior support. Besides the excellent medical advice, a friendship has develop sharing common interest from biking to photographing wildlife. His wife, Julianne joined the practice and has provided equal support and been instrumental in the family's best interest. Both have been influential in changing the family's lifestyle through diet thus eliminating the need for several prescriptions and the ability to participate in physical activities beyond expectations of people in my age bracket. It is nice to have someone interested in the overall picture and consider all aspects of our lives. Thank you, Mark and Julianne.

Dr. Mark L. Timmerman has been my Primary Care Physician for over 35 years, and he has been my go-to source for my medical needs throughout. He has consistently demonstrated many excellent qualities, but perhaps his most valuable one to me is reliability, which helped me build a very high level of trust in him. Another one of Dr. Timmerman’s excellent qualities is that he is a great listener. I believe that by listening to my feelings on medical issues it has served to optimize many solutions that worked for me, such as quitting my long-term smoking habit and selecting an eye surgeon for my cataract surgery. He has consistently been there for me in my times of medical needs, no matter what the level or nature of the ailment has been. If he is not expertly proficient in a specific area, which has been rare, I can always rely on him to know who the experts are and then to put me in touch with those experts.

One specific example of where Dr. Timmerman went above and beyond in his care for me occurred about four years ago when I had to undergo major cardiovascular surgery. After recommending a specific cardiovascular surgeon for my condition he followed up on a non-interference basis by maintaining contact with me and my surgery team, offering his support, and by letting me know that I was still important to him. Dr. Timmerman periodically contacted me to inquire how I was doing with; the progress of the plan for my treatment, the efforts leading up to my surgery, my condition following the surgery, and my progress throughout rehabilitation. He was so involved and aware of what was going on with my case that he was the first non-family visitor that I had in my hospital room the morning after my major surgery!

I consider myself very fortunate in having Dr. Mark L. Timmerman as my Primary Care Physician for all these years. In my estimation Dr. Mark L. Timmerman is a role model for what a Primary Care Physician should be!

I met Dr. Timmerman at a time when no other professional was willing to do the necessary diagnostic tests to identify a variety of right leg symptoms finally causing swelling of my entire leg.
I had been struggling for months to get any physician to do necessary diagnostic tests, but I was put off every time with weak excuses.
Then, thank goodness, I joined MDVIP and received proper and fast medical care.
Dr. Timmerman listened carefully and to my pleasant surprise stated that I likely had lymph adenopathy, but it was possible I had the cancer known as lymphoma. He also noted that if one had to pick a cancer, lymphoma was the best one as it was typically curable. He then gave me a script to get a support stocking to contain/reduce the leg swelling.
I later had an obvious symptom of a swelling under my right arm, and medical diagnostics done in a different state produced no useful diagnosis as the chosen method of biopsy was known by practitioners to be of little value.
I turned to Dr. Timmerman for help, and I quickly was connected with a fine surgeon who did a proper biopsy and it was determined that I indeed had lymphoma. Dr. Timmerman then connected me with an excellent oncology practice, and I quickly received surgery for a port and soon thereafter my first of six sessions of chemotherapy.
To cut to the chase, that was seven years ago and I am free of lymphoma.
Think about how much it meant to me to have a physician both great in explanations, preliminary diagnosis of possibilities, and great in referrals, not to mention someone patient with me to assure my knowledge was accurate and sufficient.
Dr. Timmerman has my highest liking and respect for how he conducts his practice and how he interfaces with his patients.

Yesterday was an absolute first for me. Never in my entire adult life have I had a doctor spend 3 HOURS with me! It was my "meet the doctor" appointment and the amount of ground covered was amazing. It was clear that Dr. Timmerman focused solely on me, my medical issues and obtaining a complete history, not only for my medical issues, but that of my family members. Obviously Dr. Timmerman spent time explaining the wellness program as well as how MDVIP works and the additional benefits offered but the majority of the conversation was all about ME.

This was probably one of the smartest choices I've made about my health. I was so tired of "managed" care and 5 to 7 minute doctor visits where I didn't understand half of what was said and tests results were never really explained.

I look forward to this new relationship, feeling better, being better, and having a trusted physician on my side and not under the thumb of management!