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By Jenny Kirk Murray County Medical Center recently welcomed Dr. Josiah Goldammer to its staff as a board-certified family medicine doctor.
The new doctor began seeing his first patients at MCMC in mid-November. “It still feels new as I’m still getting used to everything and where things are with all the growing pains that take place, but it’s been going pretty good,” Goldammer said.
“Everyone has been absolutely welcoming. It’s a really good workplace environment for sure.”
While the incoming doctor is still transitioning into his new workplace, he’s extremely familiar with rural medical facilities in general. In fact, it’s one of the reasons he was drawn to MCMC in the first place. “I’m a Midwest kid in general,” Goldammer said. “I had been practicing in Iowa until recently, when an opportunity came to find a new opportunity. I was looking for a continued Midwest opportunity — I have ties to South Dakota as I grew up in Madison. Growing up in a small community, rural is in my background for sure. I grew up with that rural type of doctoring and I also shadowed that in my medical training, so I believe that’s how I can make the biggest impact.”
Goldammer completed his B.A. at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, before attending medical school at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. He then did his residency and family medicine requirements at the Wellmont Lonesome Pine Hospital and at the University of Minnesota-Mankato. “I don’t do obstetrics or prenatal care,” he said. “I don’t typically see infants, but patients from age 1 to 101 are fair game.”
While many doctors have an MD stamped after their names, signifying that they are a doctor of medicine, Dr. Goldammer is a doctor of osteopathic medicine (DO). Osteopathic medicine is a “whole person” approach to medicine versus treating just the symptoms. Both are fully trained physicians certified to provide exceptional health care to patients, but DOs are trained to look beyond symptoms to try and understand how a patient’s lifestyle and environmental factors impact their health. “I’m happy to be here and in the community,” Goldammer said. “I look forward to getting to know more people in the future.”
Goldammer has a certification in Basic Life Support. His special interests include family medicine, preventative health, men’s health and office-based procedures. His personal interests include spending time with family — including wife, Lindsey, and their 10-year-old daughter — along with pheasant hunting, golfing, fly fishing and ice fishing. “My wife’s family is from Spencer, Iowa,” Goldammer said. “It’s really not too far away. My wife is still reviewing options. She’s in the acupuncture field.”
Murray County Medical Center is a critical access hospital and rural health clinic with ambulance services to people throughout the county and beyond. The facility, which has served patients for more than 60 years, is located at 2042 Juniper Avenue in Slayton.
