About DocFox

L. Scott Fox, DO

Welcome to Fox West Medical, a practice providing Direct Primary Care Services.

First, a little bit about my practice experience, then a lot about my philosophies.

1992-1998 - Emergency Department. 5 years in Dallas at a Level I Trauma Center

1998-2003 - Emergency Department Seattle Area

2003-2008 - Urgent Care/Occupational Facility Medical Director

2009-2015 - Urgent Care/Occupational Medicine

2015-2019 - Family Medicine, Federal Way

2019-2024 - Fox West Medical Ltd-Primary/Urgent Care 

Education:

1982-1987 California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo

While in undergraduate studies, I worked full-time as a first response Medic in San Luis Obispo County EMS for 3 years

1987-1991 Western Health Science University-COMP Pomona California 

1991-Internship-TriCity Hospital Dallas

1992-1994-Residency in Family Medicine-University North Texas-TCOM-Ft.Worth

Teaching:

1995-1998 Clinical Instructor UT Southwest Family Medicine Residency

1995-1996 Emergency Medicine Core Instructor University North Texas-TCOM

2010-2013 UW School of Nursing Clinical Instructor, Nurse Practitioner Program

2013-2024 Western Health Sciences Clinical Instructor, MS3, MS4

Personal Life: I am married to a wonderful Alpha female. My 32-year-old stepson was victim to my early parenting attempts, and I am currently a “late to the party” father, with a multi-sport teenage son, active in soccer and baseball. I have been active in leadership, coaching, and umpiring youth baseball for over 20 years. 

32 years of professional experience have helped shape my patient care and relationships.

Doctoring is something I do, not who I am. 

I look at my job as a combination of several persona’s wrapped into one. 

I am here to escape Plato’s Cave. I am a translator of medical language/science. My job is to make the complex understandable, while questioning that which is simple yet made complex. Scientific knowledge shouldn’t hold a monopoly on its audience. 2024 and technology has made much available with a click and a swipe. The world is full of information, misinformation, that which is information made misinformation, and misinformation that has been made information.  Therefore, the face value of information must be questioned. As should the reasons behind information, and the reasons for misinformation. It has been said that the Path to Hell is laid with bricks of good intentions. History tells us of many great academics, scholars, and physicians. It often does not tell us about the pioneers lost to the shadows, that were ahead of their time. Ignaz Semmelweis, MD was one such individual in 1846. A Hungarian physician that linked hand washing to infection control in delivering babies. He was ostracized for his passionate stance regarding such practice, to save mothers from septic post-partum deaths, yet he was committed to a mental institution for such strong beliefs. Today, professional ignorance is often referred to as Semmelweis Syndrome. When I teach medical students, I implore them not to use their White Coat as a weapon to intellectually beat the patient into compliance, especially if that intellect has been filtered through Semmelweis Syndrome lenses. 

Above all, I believe each patient is a Sovereign being, due respect until proven otherwise.  My journey for the truth translates into my practice, on a professional and personal level. My hope is that my search for the truth can lift the veils blocking good health, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I consider myself an Alpha by nature, a warrior by necessity. My hope is that my “Armor” and commitment are useful to my fellow Sojourners, for times are interesting.

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