Board-certified in Family Medicine (CA license A111109), Dr. Robert Carlson, MD in Point Loma, San Diego provides primary care from an Ingelow Street office on the peninsula. His scope covers chronic disease management, preventive screenings, and acute diagnostics — the kind of longitudinal primary care that generates routine laboratory orders processed at Sharp Laboratory Services Point Loma. An American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine graduate (2006) who completed family medicine residency at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, he brings trilingual fluency in English, Spanish, and Tagalog to a peninsula population that includes both military families and multigenerational Filipino-American households. Musculoskeletal complaints presenting in primary care — lower back pain, cervical strain, joint dysfunction — follow a referral pathway to manual-therapy providers such as Point Loma Chiropractic when conservative management and imaging rule out surgical pathology. The highest-complexity cases involve coordinating multi-specialist treatment plans for patients with overlapping diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular risk factors requiring simultaneous pharmacological and lifestyle intervention.