Welcome to the ROEP (Runde Occupational and Environmental Physicians, P.C.) medical clinics web page.  We are dedicated to improving the health and safety of workers in Missouri.  To this end, we are providing this web page to provide occupational health and safety information; and to get your input about the needs of mid-Missouri businesses and communities.

As medical specialists, we are proud of our specialty.  There are many doctors who will claim to practice “occupational medicine” – sometimes under the name “industrial medicine” or “work comp” – but they are not trained or board-certified.

However, occupational medicine is a specialty within the American Board of Preventive Medicine.  As preventive medicine practitioners, occupational medicine specialists’ goals are to improve workplace health and safety using the principles of preventive medicine:

Primary prevention:

·    Pre-employment physicals

·    Return-to-work evaluations

·    OSHA surveillance evaluations (including respiratory protection and hearing tests)

·    DOT medical examinations

·    Urine drug screens and Evidentiary Breath alcohol tests.

·    Workplace site visits; ergonomic or other safety recommendations

 

Secondary prevention:

·    OSHA surveillance evaluations

·    Early identification and treatment of occupational injuries and illnesses

 

Tertiary prevention:

·    Quickly return the injured employee to pre-injury activities as soon as possible

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·    Are you self employed?

·    Are you a small business owner?

·    Are you  responsible for OHS or HR at a medium or large company?

 

If you answered “Yes” to any of these, you can benefit from ROEP’s services.  Preventive medicine knows no bounds.  So, if you work, you can benefit from occupational medicine specialists.

A common misconception is that occupational medicine doctors are biased and work for the employer.  This misconception has been caused by “company doctors” or “work comp doctors” who are willing to do anything to keep their client company “happy” – which they think means to minimize injuries and/or call things “not work related.”

However, true occupational medicine specialists will practice preventive, evidence-based medicine.  Our first aim is to know the work and the workplace so we can see how the worker fits into it – or fails to fit into.

Board-certified occupational medicine specialists have training and resources to quickly identify occupational injuries and illnesses.

Knowing the hazards of your workplace helps us to make evidence-based determinations whether your problem is work-related.  Not only that, but it helps us to know the proper treatment of the problem. 

You need to get back to work as quickly as possible and you need to be running at full steam at that time.  If you aren’t working, you aren’t getting paid.

You want somebody who will quickly diagnose and properly treat your workplace injury.  You need occupational medicine specialists.  Our occupational medicine specialists are there to help you.

Our doctors have training in the problems of farmers and other agriculture workers.  This includes “refresher” training at the University of Iowa .

You cannot afford to have employees out of work.  As a small business, you and your employees are probably like family.  You depend on each other.  When one person is out, everyone is affected.  After all, if there are only five of you and one person is unable to do his or her job, that is 20% of your workforce.  If a large company (like Boeing or IBM) cannot afford to operate at those losses, how can you?

Evidence-based, preventive (occupational) medicine specialists can help your work-family quickly recover from a workplace injury or illness.

Your most important asset is your employee.  If they get hurt at work, you want them back to work as quickly as possible.  An employee who is not quickly and accurately diagnosed and treated for an occupational injury or illness is an employee who is not happy.  A hurting or unhappy employee can make you feel like you have failed at your job.  An unhappy or hurting employee is unproductive.

With occupational medicine specialists to assist you, everyone wins. 

·         The employee is happy because he/she gets treated quickly and stops hurting; they know you care. 

·         You are happy because your employee is happy. 

·         Your boss is happy because productivity continues. 

         Your insurance company is happy because overall costs are controlled. 

         And our occupational medicine specialists are happy because, as good doctors, we are happy that our patients have received good medical care.

With ROEP, it is a win-win-win situation!

The occupational medicine specialists at ROEP can meet all of your occupational health needs.  From primary prevention to tertiary prevention, we are there to help.