{"id":276970,"date":"2026-03-31T12:41:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/doctors\/sami-assad-md\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T05:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:12:39","slug":"sami-assad-md","status":"publish","type":"doctors","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/doctors\/sami-assad-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Sami Assad MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"grid\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 maincopy blogCore\">\n<p>O Dr. Sami Assad obteve o seu Bacharelato em Artes com especializa\u00e7\u00e3o em Psicologia na Universidade de Rhode Island em Kingston, Rhode Island. Depois, obteve o seu Doutoramento em Medicina Alop\u00e1tica na Escola de Medicina da Universidade de St. George em St. Georges, Granada, nas \u00cdndias Ocidentais. Georges, Granada, nas \u00cdndias Ocidentais. Completou a sua resid\u00eancia em Medicina Familiar na University of South Alabama em Mobile, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>A sua filosofia pessoal de cuidados \u00e9 a de que um pouco de bondade \u00e9 muito importante. Tamb\u00e9m tenta personificar o que prega e aborda a sa\u00fade de uma perspetiva abrangente, em que a dieta, o exerc\u00edcio, o sono, o stress e os cuidados mentais contribuem para uma imagem completa da sa\u00fade. Ele pr\u00f3prio \u00e9 um apaixonado pelo exerc\u00edcio f\u00edsico e participa regularmente em aulas de HIIT (High-Intensity Interval Training), CrossFit e muscula\u00e7\u00e3o. A sua paix\u00e3o pelo exerc\u00edcio tamb\u00e9m inspirou o seu plano de caminhar pelos 40 picos com mais de 4.000 p\u00e9s em New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>A sua inspira\u00e7\u00e3o para se tornar m\u00e9dico veio de uma perda pessoal numa idade muito jovem. Ele queria saber o que estava a acontecer e porque \u00e9 que as coisas estavam a acontecer. Essas experi\u00eancias e o desejo de garantir que ningu\u00e9m se sentisse \u00e0s escuras em rela\u00e7\u00e3o aos seus cuidados de sa\u00fade levaram-no a enveredar pela medicina. Para ele, fazer parte da Southcoast Health significa ter a oportunidade de prestar cuidados \u00e0 comunidade a que chama casa.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>Quando n\u00e3o est\u00e1 a trabalhar, gosta de fazer exerc\u00edcio f\u00edsico e de se dedicar \u00e0s artes culin\u00e1rias.\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":287811,"template":"","specialty":[68,57],"language":[88,123],"keywords":[],"address":[1425],"class_list":["post-276970","doctors","type-doctors","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","specialties-family-medicine","specialties-primary-care","languages-arabic","languages-russian","addresses-256_599"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sami Assad MD - Southcoast Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/doctors\/sami-assad-md\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"pt_PT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sami Assad MD - Southcoast Health\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Sami Assad earned his Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in Psychology from the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, Rhode Island. 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