The art of medicine
Dr. Nick Bellos Dr. Nick Bellos hangs his shingle back up in Oak Lawn DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com Nick Bellos — one of Dallas’ pioneering AIDS specialists and known for bringing organ transplants for patients with HIV to North Texas — has left the health payer industry to return to patient care, reopening his practice in Oak Lawn.
Bellos described what he does in his practice as “The art of medicine.” “Listening is lacking,” he said of the care delivered by many of his fellow physicians today, as healthcare professionals rush through hospital visits and dozens of stacked up patients in their offices.
Bellos said he sometimes learns as much about a patient’s health by listening to them as by administering tests. Bellos practiced in Dallas through the height of the AIDS epidemic, from 1990 until 2012 but has been doing HIV care since 1983.
He did his fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and volunteered at the Montrose Clinic there. He did his residency in internal medicine at Charity Hospital in New Orleans and studied infectious disease and special immunology at University of Miami.
