William Croson, M.D.
Family Practitioner
Family Practitioner
A construction worker and licensed contractor for 20
years, Bill Croson decided to start a new career and
now it's Dr. Croson and he's practicing at the
Coquille Medical Offices.
"I was in California and Utah, but I did a lot of work
in Idaho and Wyoming as well," Croson said. "When I
was 40 I was working in Boise, Idaho and at that point
I stopped working and sold my business and went back
to school."
Three years later Croson found himself in medical
school at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
"I finished my residence a little over a year ago,"
Croson said. "In that time I've been working in urgent
care clinics and working in pain management. That's a
specialty I adding to family medicine."
According to Croson, having been in construction for
20 years, he's an avid reader of classified ads, which
brought him to Coquille.
"Dr. Sinnott placed an ad in the Family Medicine Journal when I was a
second year resident and I got a hold of him right away," Croson said. "We had a good
line of communication going and everything I could
find on the web about this area seemed positive."
Croson's wife, Dr. Marinell Croson, a veterinarian in our community, also returned to school at the
age of 36 after a career in compensation for a large
manufacturing company.
"I was doing things like executive compensation, stock
options, equity plans, merit pay systems," she said.
When she returned to school she decided to follow her
first love, which is animals and she became a
veterinarian. In the past she trained guide dogs for the
blind.
"She's really good with that human animal
interaction," he said.
The Crosons have a two-year-old child named Hannah.
"We were looking for a traditional name and it turns
out you can spell Hannah all sorts of ways, Marinell said. Croson sees himself as a kind of conduit for health
education and intends to bring the latest
research information to our patients.
"I want to bring that to my patients so that they're
not just listening to a doctor telling them what to
do, but also why they should be doing those things," he
said. "I want to be part of a small community and the
part that I feel I can be is guidance."
The veterinarian in the family likes working with
people who are having issues with their pets.
"Maybe they're having a problem and they can't figure
out what to do and I want to be involved in that and
help them determine what to do," she said. "I want to
work with them and help them find a course of
treatment that will work for them because not everyone
can afford the most expensive treatment you might find
available at Corvallis."
Not having spent their entire careers in medicine, the
Crosons feel their life experience in other fields
will help in their medical careers.
"While we're relatively new to the medical field we
come with this wealth of experience from other parts
of our lives and I think this is going to be really helpful
to us and for our patients," she said. "We have the
ability to look at this with a different kind of
experience."
The Crosons have been involved in sculling. Sculling
is rowing in boats that are about 12 inches wide and
26 feet long. The couple is now looking at kayaks and
may even give sea kayaking a try. They are also
interested in fishing, hiking, biking and music.
According to the Crosons, the community has been very
welcoming to them.
"We've had terrific support from the people that we've
met and the people that we work with both," she said.
"We've really felt welcome."
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Schedule appointments with Dr. Croson by calling 541-396-3111.
