{"id":277788,"date":"2026-03-31T12:30:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/doctors\/michael-messina-md\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T05:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:12:20","slug":"michael-messina-md","status":"publish","type":"doctors","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/doctors\/michael-messina-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Messina MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"grid\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 maincopy blogCore\">\n<p>O Dr. Messina iniciou a sua forma\u00e7\u00e3o m\u00e9dica com uma licenciatura em bioqu\u00edmica no Boston College. A partir da\u00ed, aprofundou os seus estudos m\u00e9dicos na Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Massachusetts, obtendo o seu Doutoramento em Medicina. Michael completou a sua resid\u00eancia na New Hampshire Dartmouth Family Medicine em Concord.<\/p>\n<p>A filosofia de cuidados do Dr. Messina gira em torno de fornecer aos seus pacientes os melhores cuidados, mais baseados em evid\u00eancias, que ele \u00e9 capaz de fornecer. Ele acredita firmemente em ouvir os seus pacientes e fazer com que eles se sintam ouvidos. O Dr. Messina acredita que os m\u00e9dicos prestam melhores cuidados m\u00e9dicos quando se permitem ser humanos e se relacionam com o ser humano que t\u00eam \u00e0 sua frente.<\/p>\n<p>Quando n\u00e3o est\u00e1 a trabalhar, passa a maior parte do tempo com a sua fam\u00edlia.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":287443,"template":"","specialty":[68,115,57],"language":[],"keywords":[],"address":[1427],"class_list":["post-277788","doctors","type-doctors","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","specialties-family-medicine","specialties-pediatrics","specialties-primary-care","addresses-256_601"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michael Messina 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\/michael-messina-md\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"pt_PT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michael Messina MD - Southcoast Health\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Messina started his medical education completing a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry at Boston College. 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