But unlike Tarnosky, it took Brown a little bit longer to achieve his goal. Like Tarnosky, Brown said he always knew that he wanted to one day come back to Pensacola to practice medicine. Alex Brown wanted to one day come back to Pensacola $1.25 million pledge: Studer Family Children’s Hospital receives $1.25 million pledge from Panda Express Dr. Like I said, a lot of these patients, I've known for years and years."ĮMS dashboard: Ever wonder where those emergency sirens are heading? Escambia EMS dashboard has answers. "Yeah, you're just willing to go the extra mile. "I think if you're from the area that you practice in, I think you definitely care more about the community and you care more about the patients," he said. Tarnosky, now a doctor himself, tries to give similar kindnesses to his own patients when they're sick and feeling scared. He's never forgotten little moments of compassion that he received from some of his Pensacola doctors as a teenager diagnosed with cancer. "So when I went off to medical school and residency, and I moved back home because my family's here, but I specifically chose Sacred Heart since I was treated here." "That's basically what really stimulated my interest in medicine, because I saw that it was important and that doctors and other health care professionals are important in the lives of their patients," he said. Tarnosky added that it has been "a dream come true" to practice medicine in the place that first inspired him to become a doctor.Īs a teenager, Tarnosky was diagnosed in 1992 with cancer when he was a senior at Tate High School. So, I've got three generations of some of these families that I grew up with as patients," he said. Then, (I) got the children of my friends. "When I first started, I had a lot of friends coming and seeing me as patients, and their parents started coming to see me. "I've been here ever since I took a job at Sacred Heart in 2004."įor Tarnosky, working in his hometown allows him to almost feel like he's living out a modern day version of like what it must have been like to be a small town doctor in the previous century. "Immediately following my graduation from residency, I moved back home," Tarnosky said. He went away to college to attend Florida State University, later received his medical degree from the University of Florida and completed a residency at Atlanta Medical Center. Tarnosky, 46, a family doctor and general practitioner at Ascension Sacred Heart's Airport Medical Park, was born in Gainesville, but he and his family moved to Pensacola when he was about 5 years old. One of the three doctors wasted absolutely no time at all in getting back to Pensacola, he said. But we're fortunate that they came back home and we're proud to have them serving this community." 'A dream come true' for Dr. Adam Tarnosky "Like so many of our doctors, these three are very talented and dedicated, and they could have practiced anywhere in the country. "It's really an honor that physicians who were born at Ascension Sacred Heart or were treated as young patients at our Children's Hospital have returned after many years of medical education and training to serve our patients," said Dawn Rudolph, president of Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola, in a written statement. In recent interviews, all three medical professionals explained their decisions to move back home after earning medical degrees and pursuing careers in other places. Alex Brown and Katherine Parikh were both born at Ascension Sacred Heart, and Dr. Adam Tarnosky was treated for cancer at the hospital when he was a teenager.
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