The Women’s Care Center Specializing in Obstetrics, Gynecology, Infertility and Advanced Urinary Incontinence Testing/Treatment Doctors Cary Shakespeare and Armi
in the most caring and compassionate
Lynn Walker provide special care in
way we can. We want the treatment
all areas of women’s health, including
they receive to be complete and to
pregnancy. Both Dr. Shakespeare and
be delivered with our best efforts.”
Dr. Walker graduated from Loma Lin-
The Women’s Care Center is happy
da University Medical School and at-
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The office is centrally located in the
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Westchester area of downtown Ba-
to give the patients in this community
kersfield. New patients are welcome
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KernHealth Profiles HOFFMANN HOSPICE
”Hoffmann’s There Because We Care” Hoffmann Dietician Mariafelix Gon-
shut down in order for the body to di-
zalez is rarely seen around the office
rect more energy to the lungs, heart,
and for good reason. She’s busy in
and brain. But I try to be very tactful in
the homes of Hoffmann patients,
my instruction and most families are
teaching them and their caregivers
very receptive.”
about good end-of-life nutrition.
8501 Brimhall Road, Building 100 661-410-1010 www.HoffmannHospice.org
When not working with Hoffmann
The nutritional training Gonzalez of-
patients, Gonzalez is a clinical dieti-
fers is especially important to those
cian at Mercy Hospital, a renal dieti-
who have never cared for a termi-
cian at Pegasus Dialysis, and an in-
nally ill family member. In such a situ-
structor at Bakersfield College. It’s in
ation, the family’s main concern is
working with hospice patients, how-
that they’re feeding their loved one
ever, that she’s learned more than
properly, Gonzalez says.
she’s taught.
“Sometimes families believe if they
“My patients have made me see
can just get grandma to eat some-
life differently, that it’s the little things
thing, she’ll get better,” she says.
that matter and family is the most im-
“That’s a huge misconception—the
portant thing,” she says. “It’s been so
stomach is one of the first organs to
fulfilling.”
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