Hooked on Primary Care with Theodore Schuck, DO

Growing up, I was one of eight. My dad was a police officer. My mom would stay at home. We didn’t have too much growing up, and we had to work hard.

Early on, my mom was involved in a pretty bad accident, where she had a car run over her back. She still went on and had five more kids.

The accident caused her to go to our family doctor routinely, who not only was a great doctor but also was a DO. I didn’t even know the difference between DO and MD at that point, but I noticed the great care he gave her, including osteopathic manipulative medicine. Seeing somebody routinely looking out for you, especially as a family physician, that’s what really created this desire in me to go into family medicine and especially osteopathic medicine.

I am part of Brevard Health Alliance, which is the only federally qualified health center (FQHC) in Brevard County, Florida, that is granted under the National Health Service Corp. Our mission is to provide primary care services for anyone who enters our door. That, in essence, includes any patient. We see many uninsured and underinsured patients. We are there for the community, and the goal is to provide all of our patients’ primary care needs.

Our primary care services include family medicine, pediatrics and dental and behavioral health. We have a huge, robust behavioral health system for patients; they don’t have to go anywhere else. The nice part about being a family physician in a FQHC is that you get to practice to your scope of care.

A lot of our patients, being uninsured/underinsured, do not have the ability to receive care elsewhere, so when it comes to procedures or certain conditions where a lot of doctors will refer out, we do that in house.

Theodore Schuck, DO
Osteopathic physician specializing in family medicine
Member, American Osteopathic Association