Physician values connection with patients

HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital recently highlighted one of its physicians in women’s health. The hospital said Dr. Nikki Rowan has delivered over 2,500 babies in the last 14 years.

In a video produced by the hospital, Rowan said she was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and attended both college and medical school at Brown University in Rhode Island.

She came to Jacksonville after marrying a sailor and served as a resident at UF Health in Jacksonville.

Rowan said she was attracted to women’s health because it offers specialization and surgery opportunities and continuity and long-term care.

She added that she spends much time discussing treatment options with her patients.

“I really like to talk a lot of things through with my patients,” she said, “and let them know what options are available to them so that they can try to find something that seems like it is going to be the best fit for them and the most sustainable in terms of health maintenance and that sort of thing.”

Rowan said she gets personally involved with her patients and treasures the relationships medicine has allowed her to develop with Orange Park residents.

“Medicine is very demanding in terms of schedule, in terms of the responsibility involved with making some of these decisions that really affect people’s lives,” she said. “For me, the joy really comes from that connection with people.”