December 15 was the last regular day of work for Dr. Nicole Fliss at Empire Family Care, who arrived on this scene just before Dr. Matthew Houghton closed his office in Glen Arbor. Here is how it happened, why she’s leaving now, and what the future might bring for her and the clinic.
The large brown American dog tick has been around for years. Although it is not benign to its hosts, there’s a new tick in the neighborhood whose bite can be much worse. The black-legged tick, better known as the “deer tick,” is new to Leelanau County.
Drs. Cyrus Ghaemi and Katie Krezoski-Evans have joined Dr. Nicole Fliss at Munson Healthcare’s family practice in Empire, which serves infants to elders. We posed the following questions to Krezoski-Evans and Ghaemi in order to get to know them.