![Elena Brinker, CRNP](/sites/default/files/styles/400_x_202/public/2024-08/N28776_Blog-PrimaryCare-Kost.jpg?h=df7a1def&itok=zCxrx9dt&cb=402f0f99)
Patricia Kost knew something wasn’t quite right. She was a little short of breath and she had a cough, and sometimes she was too tired to walk to her mailbox.
So the 92-year-old Allentown woman made an appointment with her primary care clinician, Elena Brinker, CRNP, of LVPG Internal Medicine–1230 Cedar Crest in Allentown.
“She got ahold of my problem right away,” Kost says of Brinker. “Once she figured out the issue, she referred me for specialized care, and she continues to follow up with me.”
It turns out that Kost had an iron deficiency in her blood. When that was corrected, the breathing problems and cough and tiredness cleared up.