Frederick Seydel, MD

Bio

I grew up in the Boulder-Denver area of Colorado, and attended the University of Colorado in Boulder, graduating Cum Laude. I attended medical school at the University of Colorado in Denver. During the years of medical school, I was a trainee in comprehensive health planning. I served as Student Director of the Colorado Migrant Health Program and worked as a VISTA volunteer in the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado.

Following internship and residency at UCLA-Harbor General Hospital, I returned to the San Luis Valley in the U.S. Public Health Service, providing medical care and establishing a medical care network for the provision of care in the future. As part of this effort, I was the first medical director of the first HMO in Colorado, created to provide medical care to the mostly indigent population of the San Luis Valley. After completing my service in the USPHS, I practiced emergency medicine in Novato for two years. I then took a residency at Denver General Hospital in the new specialty of Emergency Medicine. I was in private practice for several years thereafter in Colorado, during which time I was designated a "Fellow" of the American College of Emergency Physicians (FACEP) and was certified as a specialist by the American Board of Emergency Medicine.

Desiring to return to the Bay Area, I returned to California in 1989 to join Kaiser Permanente. I started at the San Rafael Emergency Department, where I was fortunate to meet my wife-to-be, Maureen. I transferred to the E.D. in Santa Rosa before we married and moved to Petaluma, where both of our children graduated from St. Vincent's High School.

I am now very pleased to work in the Emergency Department in Santa Rosa, where my associates in emergency medicine are among the finest physicians I could be fortunate enough to work with, and the nursing and support staff is dedicated and committed. The availability of patient clinical information on the Kaiser Permanente computer system is unparalleled outside of Kaiser Permanente and contributes immensely to the excellent care that Kaiser Permanente members receive in our Emergency Department. Having worked at over a dozen emergency departments, I am very pleased to be able to practice high quality emergency medicine in Kaiser Santa Rosa with exceptional colleagues.

My Medical Specialty

More details about my specialty:

When I was at East High School and my father was one of the first emergency physicians in Denver, I did not realize that some day I would be an emergency physician as well. In fact, my father was an emergency physician before the specialty of Emergency Medicine had been established. And he was at Denver General Hospital in the "emergency room" before it became one of the first actual emergency departments in the country. I attended medical school at the University of Colorado in Denver and gained my interest in emergency medicine during a trauma surgery rotation at the Denver General emergency room. Several years later, I would become an Emergency Medicine Resident in the same hospital, beginning my career as a specialist in Emergency Medicine, under the tutelage of Dr. Peter Rosen, credited by many in the field as the "Father of Emergency Medicine."

La Herencia de la Medicina de la Emergencia. Cuándo yo estaba en East High School y mi padre era uno de los primeros médicos de emergencia en Denver, yo no me dí cuenta que algún día yo sería un médico de la emergencia también. De hecho, mi padre era un médico de la emergencia antes la especialidad de la Medicina de la Emergencia se había establecido. Y él estaba en Denver el Hospital General en el "la sala de la emergencia", antes llegó a ser uno de los primeros Departamentos verdaderos de Emergencia en el país. Asistí escuela médica en la Universidad de Colorado en Denver y gané mi interés en la medicina de la emergencia durante un rotación de la cirugía de trauma en el Denver General la sala de la emergencia. Varios años luego yo llegaría a ser un Residente de la Medicina de la Emergencia en el mismo hospital, con mi segundo padre allí, Dr. Peter Rosen, aclamado por muchos como el "padre de la Medicina de la Emergencia," mi mentor en El Departamento de la Emergencia.

My specialty interests and affiliations within my field:

Emergency Medicine provides the opportunity to care for people and see them at their extremes. There is endless variety in medical problems, personalities, and emergency situations. The diversity of medical issues and the variety of problems requiring constant resourcefulness to care for them make Emergency Medicine the most attractive medical practice I can imagine.

Current projects or research:

I am interested in emergency medical systems, including pre-hospital care and transportation, disaster management, and emergency preparedness. I am currently the elected Hospital and Emergency Department Representative on the Coastal Valleys EMS Emergency Medical Care Council and have been active with the EMS Agency for most of the years I have been in Santa Rosa. Additionally, I have worked with Emergency Prospective Review Program (EPRP), which facilitates care for Kaiser Permanente members in non-Kaiser Permanente emergency departments by working with the non-Kaiser Permanente emergency physician in the care and medical management of our Kaiser Permanente members under his/her care. EPRP assists in providing continued care at Kaiser Permanente when appropriate, and helps arrange follow-up or, in some cases, hospitalization, at Kaiser Permanente facilities.

Great health resources that I refer to:

The Healthwise Handbook is a useful resource for Kaiser Permanente members and non-members alike. To help keep up to date, I subscribe to an emergency medical abstract service which reviews and critiques the latest medical literature and The Medical Letter which provides unbiased reviews of the latest drugs and therapies. I also rely heavily on Kaiser Permanente's Clinical Library which has a wealth of information online.

An interesting story from my training:

One of the more notable patients I have cared for was a man who was removed from the top of a flagpole in downtown Los Angeles on New Years Eve and who subsequently capsized his dinghy in Long Beach harbor the same night.

Interests

Currently reading:
Up Country

My favorite book or author:
Nelson DeMille

Great movie:
Citizen Kane

Hobby Photos & Links:

San Luis Valley, Colorado

San Simeon
HyperHistory Online

Family & Friends

Photos of my Family & Friends:

Cameron, Maureen, Fred, Mikaela

Travel

An adventure I've had:

The most exciting travels were my trips to China and the Soviet Union in the early 1980's. China was emerging from the Cultural Revolution and starting to open up to the West. Chinese citizens would stop and stare at Westerners, amazed by Caucasian features. In the Soviet Union, I had several nonviolent encounters with the KGB. I am convinced that unemployment was minimal there because those who were not working were employed to watch those who were.

Favorite place in the world:

I have many favorite places, but some have a sacred feel to them, including Hang Chow, Assisi, and the top of Grey Mountain in southern Colorado.

One of my recent trips:

I found "The Beast" of the song "Hotel California" in ... the restroom of the Hotel California in Todos Santos in South Baja!

Travel Photos:

Patmos Bells

A Photo of One of My Favorite Places:

Hotel California

Tahoe Sunset

Round Mountain, Colorado.

Grand Tetons

Arches Nationall Monument

Craters of the Moon

Trip Photos:

The Beast, Hotel California