Shubi takes over an Internal medicine practice
Smithfield welcomes a new doctor By SARAH MCNEIL, STAFF REPORTER Smithfield — At Meridian Medical Center, Dr. Shubi Shahida has been on the job for just four days, but she already has the goal of keeping her patients educated and healthy. "Everything about my new practice is about prevention or the proper care of diseases that people already have," she said. Shahida has taken over the internal-medicine practice of Dr. Joseph "Jan" Creech, who retired in April. Creech owned the practice for 23 years and plans to fill in for Shahida if she needs to be away from the office. "I am definitely not Dr. Creech, but I think that I will be close to Dr. Creech," Shahida said. "I am confident that after a couple of visits, they will get to know me very well, but they have to come in and see how I do it." Shahida is focused particularly on cancer prevention because she has family members who have been diagnosed with the disease or died from it. Annual mammogr