As a hospitalist, Dr. Tuxbury’s focus is helping hospitalized patients get well, leave the hospital and return to the daily activities they love.  

With an educational and clinical background in family medicine, she also strives to help people understand how they can live a healthier lifestyle that reduces the risk for hospitalization in the first place. She has a history of success in accomplishing that.

“My dad just turned 70. You would think he is 50.  He was my first patient,” she said with a smile.

That smile is the first thing patients will notice upon meeting Dr. Tuxbury.  “Someone can be in great pain, but the moment you smile, they know you are coming in peace. That’s my ice breaker, my smile.”

As she works with her patients, they understand the foundation of her smile.

“Grit. I do not give up.”

Dr. Tuxbury learned her approach to life and medicine from her role model, her mother.

“She is a strong woman, very driven. How she navigates through life is how I got to where I am today.”