Internal Medicine · West Palm Beach
Internal Medicine in West Palm Beach
Internal medicine physicians (internists) specialize in the health of adults — especially adults managing more than one condition at a time. At our West Palm Beach office on Forest Hill Blvd, Dr. Shahnaz Akhter provides comprehensive internal medicine care, in a practice led by board-certified internist Dr. Gurpreet Singh Sareen and built around a long-term relationship with one doctor.
Conditions we commonly manage
- Type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes
- High blood pressure (hypertension)
- High cholesterol
- Thyroid conditions
- Asthma and COPD
- Heart-health risk management
- Weight management (see our Weight Loss Program)
What to expect
Your first visit includes a full review of your history, current medications, and health goals. From there, your physician builds a care plan you can actually follow — with regular follow-ups, lab work coordinated through the office, and specialist referrals when your care needs them.
How a visit here differs from a routine checkup
An internal medicine visit at this office starts from the same place a primary care visit does — your history, your current medications, your vitals — but the follow-up is built differently when more than one condition is in play. If you're managing diabetes and high blood pressure together, for example, Dr. Akhter reviews how your medications for each one interact, times your lab work to catch both at once, and adjusts one plan with the other in mind rather than treating them as two separate problems on two separate visits.
Dr. Akhter at this office
Dr. Shahnaz Akhter provides internal medicine care at the West Palm Beach office and speaks Bengali, English, Hindi, and Urdu. The office also has in-house lab services, so the bloodwork that chronic condition management depends on — A1C, lipid panels, thyroid function — can usually be drawn on site and reviewed with you at the same visit rather than days later over the phone.
How follow-up visits are paced
Internal medicine follow-up is not scheduled on a single fixed interval — how often you're seen depends on how stable your conditions are and what your last labs showed. A patient whose blood pressure and A1C are well-controlled might be seen every few months; someone whose medications were just adjusted may be brought back sooner to check how they're responding before the next change is made. Specialist referrals — cardiology, endocrinology, nephrology — are coordinated through this office so results come back to the same chart instead of sitting with a specialist your internist never hears from. The office's page on chronic disease management in West Palm Beach describes what a follow-up looks like in more detail, and thyroid care here follows the same pattern. A pounding or racing heart is a common reason adults ask for a visit, and the heart palpitations guide explains the usual triggers, the tests a provider may use, and the warning signs.
Who tends to book internal medicine here
Adults usually book an internist when one condition has become two or three, when a medicine list has grown past what one visit used to cover, or when a primary care visit turned up a result that needs watching over time. If you mainly need a general first doctor for checkups and everyday illnesses, the primary care page for this office describes that visit instead, and you do not have to decide in advance: staff can help you pick the right visit type when you call.
Other services at the same address
Several services that internal medicine visits lead to are available at the Forest Hill Blvd office. The practice lists in-house lab services here for blood draws and testing, in-office EKGs as described on the EKG screening page for West Palm Beach, and joint injections as described on the West Palm Beach joint injections page. Ask when you call whether any of them should be planned for your first visit, so the time with Dr. Akhter is not spent arranging a second trip.
Patients from nearby communities
The Forest Hill Blvd office is also the closest practice office for patients in Greenacres, Lake Worth, and Palm Springs, and each of those communities has its own page describing how an internal medicine visit works for people living there, including internal medicine for Greenacres adults and internal medicine for Lake Worth adults. Whichever page you start from, the visit is with Dr. Akhter at the same address.
Visiting us
We're located at 3472 Forest Hill Blvd, Suite 3B, West Palm Beach, FL 33406, open Monday through Friday. Call (561) 473-9044 to schedule. The office accepts Medicare, Medicaid, and most major commercial insurance plans, and our staff will confirm your specific coverage before your first visit; patients without insurance can pay the practice's self-pay rate of $160 for a new patient and $100 for a follow-up visit. Patients who also want help with weight can ask about medical weight management at the West Palm Beach office, which starts with an evaluation and labs from the same physician.
What's the difference between internal medicine and family medicine?
Internists focus exclusively on adults, with extra training in complex and chronic adult conditions. Family medicine treats all ages.
Do I need a referral to see an internist?
Usually not — most patients can schedule directly. Some insurance plans have their own rules; call and we'll help you check.
Can this practice be my primary care home?
Yes — many patients use our internal medicine practice as their primary care home.
I'm managing more than one condition at once — does that change how visits work?
Yes. When you're managing conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, or thyroid disease together, Dr. Akhter reviews them as a set rather than one at a time, timing lab work and medication adjustments so they account for each other. Call to schedule and bring your current medication list to your first visit.
Can I get my labs drawn at this office?
Yes. The West Palm Beach office offers in-house lab services, so routine bloodwork for conditions like diabetes or high cholesterol can typically be drawn on site the same day rather than sent to an outside lab, with results coordinated directly with Dr. Akhter at your next visit or by phone.
Do you coordinate with specialists outside the practice?
Yes. When a condition needs a cardiologist, endocrinologist, or other specialist, Dr. Akhter refers you out and asks that results come back to this office, so your internal medicine chart reflects the full picture rather than just the visits that happened here.
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West Palm Beach office
3472 Forest Hill Blvd, Suite 3B
West Palm Beach, FL 33406
Mon–Fri, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
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