Dear patients,

I am happy to announce that Razmig Krumian, D.O. will be taking over my practice effective June 1, 2005. He is a board certified family physician who shares my philosophy of providing quality, caring, and thorough care to patients. He is a local Southern Californian who did his residency training at the prestigious Long Beach Memorial Hospital Family Medicine program. He started practicing in the Conejo Valley in April 2003 with another community physician, and has decided to begin a solo family practice.

Dr. Krumian has excellent qualifications and I am certain that you will enjoy meeting him. He has a strong background in both inpatient and outpatient medicine, as well as an empathic and gentle bedside manner. Some of you have noticed that Dr. Krumian has different initials after his name. As are many other very fine physicians in this community, Dr. Krumian is an osteopathic physician and in addition to "regular" western or allopathic medicine he has been trained in manipulative medicine, which he uses to diagnose and treat common ailments such as musculoskeletal pain and certain types of headaches. This is something that he will be able to explain to you better than I can!

For the next month, Dr. Krumian will be satisfying his professional obligations at the Westlake Village Urgent Care, but will be available to take care of most of your health care needs there. In July 2005, he will move the practice to 32144 Agoura Rd, Suite 218, the beige building just to the east of my present location. (Unfortunately the practice needs to be relocated because my suite had already been leased to another physician.) Please note that the phone number will remain the same for now, but in the future will be changing to 818-889-9230.

Dr. Krumian is a preferred provider for most PPO insurances, Tricare and Medicare, and will welcome new patients. However, he has just notified me that he has decided not to continue to see my Health Net, Blue Cross and Cigna HMO patients that were being seen through Regal Medical Group. (Instead, those of you with HMO insurance through Regal Medical Group IPA will be transferred to another fine local family physician, Dr. Julie Stark, with whom I have been sharing call for several years. It will take several days to process this. Her telephone number is 805-374-1420.) I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

You will be receiving some additional background information on Dr. Krumian in the mail so you will have the opportunity to get to know a little more about him. That way when you need to call for an appointment, you know whom you will be seeing. I think you will like him.

Sincerely,

Jeffrey Klein, M.D.