Pulmonology and critical care specialties address health risks common in West Virginia

WV Press Association

LEWISBURG, W.Va.— If you think pulmonologists always focus on a patient’s lungs, you’d be wrong.

Tom Takubo, D.O., of the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine’s (WVSOM) Class of 1999, said many people don’t realize how intimately the lungs are intertwined with other organs involved in the breathing process.

“As a pulmonary specialist, you do learn the lungs at a much greater level,” Takubo said. “But the body has a lot of redundancy,…