WHMC welcomes new podiatrist

COLFAX — Whitman County Hospital and Medical Clinics welcomed a new podiatrist to the team earlier this month.

Adam Simmons, 40, grew up in Provo, Utah, where he finished his undergrad in Biology at Utah University.

Simmons said he moved to Miami where he went to Medical School to study podiatry, which focuses on the foot and ankle.

The only podiatrist at Whitman Hospital and Medical Clinics, Simmons said he started out wanting to be a dentist, shadowing his friend’s dad growing up.

It was when he met a podiatrist who convinced Simmons to shadow him, that Simmons fell in love with podiatry and...