Liz Twardon, MD

"Because I loved taking care of all sorts of problems in all sorts of patients of all ages, I chose Family Medicine. I trained in a Community Health Center that served primarily Spanish-speaking and Hmong patients in St. Paul, Minnesota. The program offered an exchange with other medical residents from Thailand, so I spent 2 months in Chiang Mai and learned a ton about infectious diseases. It was in Minnesota, that I also met my husband, Bruce Israel, an Infectious Disease specialist, who lured me from the cold snowy north to North Carolina.

I landed my first job by cold-calling clinics in the Chapel Hill area and started practicing full scope family medicine, "cradle-to-grave" care. Back then, I delivered babies and continued to care for patients in the hospital as well as in clinic. Over the years, lifestyle costs and exorbitant medical liability expenses forced me and many family practice physicians to stop delivering babies and doing hospital in-patient care. Now I focus on keeping my patients healthy and out of the hospital as much as possible."

"At Twardon Family Care, I will seek to provide the same high level of care for which I always strive.  I will not be providing Emergency Care or Hospital Inpatient Care (head trauma, major burns, hospitalization) nor care for any problems (such as obstetrical care) beyond the scope of a solo Family Practice outpatient clinic."