Stories About Residents

Married Doctors

When it comes to physician recruitment, married doctors are a blessing.

Drs. Kimberly Sokol and Anthony Lucero - Click HERE to read full article

Two years after saying their vows to each other and leaving the cold Chicago winters for sunny California, the newly married Drs. Kimberly Sokol and Anthony Lucero never dreamed they would say yes to practicing medicine in Visalia. It was a place they had never heard of, been to, or had on their radar when they finished their respective residencies at UC Irvine and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.

From the love of medicine to the love of our community

Drs. Tariq Javed and Faiza Nawaz - Click HERE to read full article

Arranged marriages are fairly common across the world and in the nine years that Drs. Tariq Javed and Faiza Nawaz have been married, theirs has been a beautiful thing. Both were matched in 2010, at the suggestion of a mutual friend, largely because their backgrounds were similar – a key component in successfully arranged marriages. Both were from rural areas in Pakistan and shared a love of medicine. He was a doctor in the U.S.; she was a doctor in Pakistan.