Most ear emergencies result from some form of trauma. This trauma can be self-induced--a child's putting a foreign object in the ear-- or accidental--exposure to the blast from a firecracker or gun.

Pamela Capik, MD

Biography

Dr. Capik grew up in Arlington, Texas playing volleyball at Martin high school. She received a scholarship to play volleyball for University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio. She then attended medical school at UT Houston Health Science Center; with the dream to be a medical geneticist. Her passion for research was driven by the desire to help prevent genetic diseases after her brother was born with a cleft lip and palate. Dr. Capik soon found that while attending medical school she was immediately drawn to emergency medicine; especially after she saw a trauma resuscitation run by the incredible Dr. Red Duke, and the Herman Memorial Emergency Medicine Team. After her first shift in the ER, she has never considered any other career.

After graduation, Dr. Capik performed her residency and EMS Fellowship at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. When Hurrican Katrina hit she worked hard alongside so many to re-establish the hospital network, city, and residency program after the storm. She feels very fortunate to have gotten to learn so much during her 15 years stay in the City of New Orleans. Watching so many come together through the years to restore the city will stay in her heart forever.

Dr. Capik’s return to Texas came after her and her husband decided to grow their family. They packed up and headed home. They now live 5 houses down from her parents who are still in her childhood home. Dr. Capik knew that she loved growing up here and wanted to have her son (who’s now 5) have the same opportunity to be raised in this beautiful community. “It's so much fun to see my son grown up and swim in the same pool, and even sled down the same hill on those rare ice storms”

When asked why she decided to work in what is known as the “Freestanding Emergency” world she said:

“I have found an amazing opportunity to provide emergency medicine in a way that is comfortable for my patients as well as enjoyable to practice. I have all the training and skills to stabilize patients in any emergency, however, now, there is no huge corporate machine pushing how to practice medicine and prioritize on profits. I have time to talk to my patients; get to know them. I can communicate directly with their primary care doctors to ensure the highest continuity of care. To be able to give truly compassionate, individualized, quality medical care is unbeatable. I have such a passion for this type of medicine, and I feel that so many patients would have such a nicer experience if they visited us at ERTX Medical Center, instead of waiting in a huge hospital setting for hours, just to get the bare minimum from medical providers who to no fault of their own are spread so thin that they barely have time to say hello, let alone treat their patients like family.”

We do hope that you never need Emergency help, however if you do we hope that you will consider coming to see us, where people like Dr. Capik will take the time to go over every detail and ensure the highest quality of care.

At ERTX Medical Center Mansfield and all of our other ER of Texas locations truly do have a “Commitment to Care”.