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Do Not use Afluria/CSL Biotherapies' brand flu vaccine secondary to the risk of febrile seizures in children age 6 months through 8 years. This may be extended to other age groups. Employment opportunity, for either an additional part time medical assistant.Same day and next day appointments usually are available to most established patients, who are part of the accepted insurance plans. Patients usually are seen within minutes of the scheduled appointment time. The care of the patient is the top priority at Country Doctor, LtdThe new patient may want to visit the NEW PATIENT FORMS section. Please bring the completed forms to the initial appointment. Paper forms are available to patients without internet access. New patients are patients who have never been seen for an office/hospital visit or who have not been to an office visit in three years. I work six days a week to try to get new patients in the same week that they call. The Country Doctor is Dr. David Mitchell, the primary care physician who founded Country Doctor, Ltd and who is the first Board-Certified physician to live and work in Shiloh, Illinois. Dr. David Mitchell is the only independent, solo Family Physician to start a practice from scratch in the Belleville-Shiloh-Swansea-O'Fallon area in the last nine years and is the last remaining solo Family Physician under age 50. The Country Doctor is staying in the area longterm. Why not choose a local doctor who grew up in the area and who is not going to leave the area? Why you should choose The Country Doctor for your care?You see the same doctor at each office and hospital visit, meaning you see a doctor who is familiar with your care.Same day appointments and Saturday morning appointments usually are available to established patients.Dr. Mitchell cares for patients at both Belleville Hospitals. A review of a recent internet posting of Family Practice physicians on staff at the Belleville Hospitals shows that Dr. David Mitchell is the only full time, solo, Family Practice doctor left in Belleville, Swansea, Fairview Heights, Shiloh, and O'Fallon, Illinois who sees inpatients and outpatients at both Belleville Hospitals. Dozens of primary care physicians no longer see their own patients at St. Elizabeth's Hospital,. To see if your doctor will not see you in the hospital click here As a summary, the majority of the doctors in O'Fallon will not see you at either Belleville Hospital.Board Certified by the American Board of Family Physicians (meeting national standards ) in 2002 and recertified in 2009, with the ABFM and subsections on the recertification examination of ambulatory family medicine and geriatrics. A recent article showed that American physicians who are board certified maintained a higher quality of care and lower mortality than physicians who are not board certified.Extended hours. The Country Doctor has weekday hours from 8: 30-4: 00 and Saturday from 8: 00-noon. Other times may be available. Lately I have been starting around 8 AM and booking straight through the day. Normally I do not close for lunch. Unlike practices that are only open 4 weekdays, I am open M-F most of the day and Sat in the AM.Email is available. Feel free to e-mail for non same day appointments and nonurgent questions. Emails are answered daily.The Country Doctor is the first St. Clair County practice to publish its common fee schedule. Our fees are based on our best insurance contract. If you would like a fee comparison, a May, 2010 urgent care center with a routine two hour wait on Greenmount Road quoted a new patient a minimum fee of $360 to walk in the door, not including labs and xrays. ER bills routinely are $1, 000 for a UTI or a sinus infection.Common Vaccines are in stock. Currently we have available for in office testing with same day results:Urinalysis, fasting glucose for diabetes, rapid strep, and urine pregnancy (most insurance plans ).