My name is Dr. Meghan Monthie, and I am thrilled that you have found your way to my website and blog!
I am a board-certified family physician with a passion for caring for growing and multi-generational families. My training in the family medicine specialty has given me the unique ability to care for our youngest newborn patients to their school aged siblings to their working (and perhaps sleep deprived) parents to their medically complex grandparents (...and sometimes even to their great grandparents!). The diversity of my patient population is one of the best parts of my job - as I'm writing this blog post, my youngest patient is 5 days old while my oldest is 99 years young! I love understanding how my patients' family history and life outside of the office influences their health and overall wellness. Each of my patients brings their own unique experiences and story to their appointments which means I never have a boring day at the office!
Since completing my medical training, I have attended to patients and families of all ages and backgrounds at Saratoga Hospital Medical Group Primary Care - Scotia-Glenville located in Ballston Lake, New York. If you're in the area and looking for a primary doctor, please reach out to our office to schedule an appointment with me or one of my amazing colleagues in family medicine.
Despite not being as flashy or glamorous as other specialties, excellent primary care is the cornerstone of and solution to our frustratingly fragmented and confusing healthcare system. When balancing acute illnesses, chronic medical conditions, and your own unique heath and wellness goals that can lead you to different specialists and down various TikTok rabbit holes, having a primary doctor who really knows you, can guide you through the noise, and focus their treatment plans to help you be successful is essential.
My hope for this blog is to provide education on the breadth of family medicine and to shed light on the importance of primary care to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease as well as to encourage patients not only be without illness but truly well.
If you have any specific topics in mind that you would like me to discuss, please let me know, and welcome to my little corner of the internet!
5 Facts About Dr. Monthie
I always knew I wanted to be a family doctor! With most of our training focused on the outpatient setting, family medicine was the perfect specialty for me to train in to be prepared to take care of patients of all ages and stages of life.
I love being a doctor, but my favorite job is being a wife and mom. My husband, Phil, was born and raised in the Capital District and works locally as a local elder law/estate planning attorney and financial advisor. With the arrivals of our son, Miles, in 2022 and our pandemic puppy, Daisy, our lives are chaotic (and sticky!), but we wouldn't have it any other way.
I am a self proclaimed endurance sport junkie. Despite a sedentary early life thanks to chronic clumsiness (not yet recognized by the ICD-10 as a billable medical diagnosis), I've been a runner since I was 13 years old. Running was my gateway sport to many future athletic adventures - walking on to the cross country team at Siena College where I served as team captain for 3 years, bicycling over 4000 miles across the country from Florida to California, running five marathons, hiking my way around the Adirondacks, picking up downhill skiing as a survival mechanism through these brutal New York winters, and even completing an Ironman-distance triathlon. I've learned you can always do more than you think you can, and there's always someone doing something crazier than you are! :) I'm happiest when I'm moving and prescribe movement as medicine daily to my patients.
Blogging is an old hobby I'm excited to resurrect. Through my cross country bike trip, marathon running, and medical training, I previously blogged on my own personal blog as well as through a medical student blog run by the Merck Manuals. It was a creative outlet, an excellent way for me to reflect on my experiences as well as connect with others, and it's something I'm super excited to try my hand at again.
I'm a Swiftie! Catch me in between patients in the office, and I'm likely singing along to my girl Taylor. Favorite albums? Rep, Red, 1989, and Lover (in that order...ish, depending on the day and mood). I've seen her in concert 3 times, and you can bet your bottom dollar I was at the Eras Tour!