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BY PEKAY PETTUS
DR. JERRY MARTIN AND DR. WERNER KREBSER plan to open a full-time medical clinic in Rappahannock County’s seat in Washington. If their request for a use permit is approved by the Town Council next month, which seems likely, construction on the new building will begin about the middle of July. The doctors hope the clinic will be ready for patients by November.
Krebser and Martin met when they both worked as family practice physicians at Culpeper Memorial Hospital. Dr. Krebser has lived in Rappahannock, near Flint Hill, since 1965. Soon after coming to Culpeper last summer, Jerry Martin and his wife Mary Beth bought the Emmie Allen place, also near Flint Hill. Dr. Martin still practices at Culpeper Memorial, while Dr. Krebser practices at Old Dominion Medical Clinic in McLean.
Part of the reason they decided to start the Rappahannock Medical Clinic is that both of them admit “We love the country and we’d rather live here.’’ They also recognized a need for a family practice clinic in Rappahannock, particularly one that would emphasize preventive medicine. “It will be a general practice clinic, but we’ll specialize, in a way, with regular sub-clinics,” Jerry Martin said. At this point, Dr. Martin and Dr^ Krebser plan to host sub-clinics for “well babies” (infant check-ups), family planning and other areas of preventive medicine.
“We do want to emphasize preventive care,” Werner Krebser said, “such as routine physicals, immunizations or the importance of taking certain precautions for hypertension, high blood pressure. Unfortunately, many people think that the only time you go to the doctor is when something hurts or goes wrong.” See Page 14
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