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Taking Care CURTIS PARK DOCTOR OPENS FAMILY-ORIENTED PRACTICE
Thomas Anker Photo by Aniko Kiezel
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hen the Ankers arrived in Curtis Park in the middle of the night after driving from Los Angeles with a U-Haul, their cat and two kids, they smiled and hugged each other. “We knew we’d landed in the right place,” Dr. Thomas Anker says of the home his family occupies down the street from Omic Wellness, the medical practice he and his wife, Julia, opened a year ago on Freeport Boulevard. “We love it here,” Sacramento native Julia concurs. “It’s such a tight-knit community with a small-town feel—we know all of our neighbors and say hi on the street. It’s those little things that make living in this area so great.” Thomas came to know the area while in residency with the UC Davis Consortium for Medical Education. Though he began his medical practice in his hometown of Los Angeles, he knew he wanted to expand to Sacramento. When he met Sonya Frausto, owner of Ten Acres Pharmacy, the two hit it off and Thomas decided to locate his Northern California practice in the back of the independent pharmacy. “We’re trying to create a highquality, intimate practice where patients feel they’re listened to and cared for thoroughly,” says Thomas, who specializes in individualized family medicine with a concentration in integrative medicine. “The integrative portion comes about so I can offer an array of interventions—not just pharmaceuticals, but also small steps in between illness and the pharmacy like herbs, vitamins, nutrition and other lifestyle factors for patients who are interested. Everybody appreciates an open mind to all therapeutics.” Though in-person connections are paramount, the pandemic made it clear that offering telemedicine is imperative. Thomas loves that he can serve local patients alongside those who live throughout California. “We offer everything a normal face-to-face office visit would offer via telemedicine and
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