Liver Transplant Center - Lexington, KYLexington General Surgeon Doctors for Liver TransplantType of Physician: General Surgeon What is a General Surgeon? A certification by the Board of Surgery. Practitioners manage a wide range of surgical conditions affecting almost any area of the body. Surgeons provide the diagnosis and the care to patients before, during, and after surgery. They are usually responsible for the comprehensive management of trauma victims and the critically ill. Surgeons have special knowledge and skills in birth defects, tumors, infections, and metabolic problems relating to the head and neck, breast, abdomen, extremities including the hand, and the gastrointestinal, vascular, and endocrine systems. General surgeons are expected to be familiar with the most relevant features of other surgical specialties in order to recognize problems in those areas and to know when to refer a patient to another specialist. Specialty: General Surgery Common Name: General Surgeon Doctors in Lexington * UK Healthcr Surgcl Spclty Clin  University Kntcky Med Ctr Surg  University Of KY Gen Sgy  University Of KY Gen Sgy  University Of KY Gen Sgy  Kentucky Clinic Thoracic Surgry  Markley Cancer Ctr Srgcl Onclgy  University Of KY Gen Sgy  UK Healthcare General Surgery  New Lexington Clinic PSC  New Lexington Clinic PSC  New Lexington Clinic PSC  New Lexington Clinic PSC  Fayette Surgical Associates  Fayette Surgical Associates  Fayette Surgical Associates  Bluegrass Surgical Group  Bluegrass Surgical Group  Fayette Surgical Associates  Fayette Surgical Associates  Fayette Surgical Associates  Fayette Surgical Associates  Fayette Surgical Associates  Fayette Surgical Associates  Fayette Surgical Associates  Bluegrass Surgical Group  Lexington Surgeons  Lexington Surgeons  Lexington Surgeons  Lexington Surgeons  Baptist Physicians Surgery Ctr  Lexington Surgeons  Lexington Surgeons  Body Spectrum Plastic Surgery  Kentucky Surgery Center  Bluegrass Bariatrics Srgcl Asso  Bluegrass Bariatrics Srgcl Asso  Narayanan Venguswamy MD PSC  Winchester General Surgery  Winchester General Surgery  Charles F Allran Jr MD  S Delbert Fritz MD  Central Kentucky Surgery  Central Kentucky Surgery  Central Kentucky Surgery  Karl C Schulstad MD  Capital Surgical Clinic  Capital Surgical Clinic  Capital Surgical Clinic  Capital Surgical Clinic  Danville Surgical Associates  Danville Surgical Associates  Central Kentucky Surgeons PSC  Central Kentucky Surgeons PSC  Central Kentucky Surgeons PSC  Central Kentucky Surgeons PSC  Mary Ellen Shields MD  Gateway Surgical Associates  New Horizons Specialties Clinic  Louisville Surgical Assocs  Louisville Surgical Assocs  Larien D Kearns MD  Larien D Kearns MD  Central Kentucky Surgical Inst  Central Kentucky Surgical Inst  Lebanon Medical Associates  Community Family Clinic PLLC  Meadowview Urology Associates  Baptist Surgical Associates  Baptist Surgical Associates  Cranley Surgical Associates  Cranley Surgical Associates  Cranley Surgical Associates  Cranley Surgical Associates  Cranley Surgical Associates  St Elizabeth Gnrl & Vsclr Srgry  Cranley Surgical Associates  Cranley Surgical Associates  Cranley Surgical Associates  St Elizabeth Physcns Gnrl Srgry  St Elizabeth Physcns Gnrl Srgry  St Elizabeth Physcns Gnrl Srgry  St Elizabeth Physcns Gnrl Srgry  Lake Cumberland Surgery Center  Lake Cumberland Surgery Center  Lake Cumberland Surgery Center  Brown & Patterson Associates  Commonwealth Bariatric Center  Brown & Patterson Associates  Lake Cumberland Srgcl Cnsltnts  Lake Cumberland Wound Cr Ctr  St Elizabeth Weight Mgmt Ctr  St Elizabeth Weight Mgmt Ctr  Center Metabolic Bariatric Sgy  Daugherty Medical Group  St Elizabeth Physicians  St Elizabeth Physicians  St Elizabeth Physicians  St Elizabeth Physicians  St Elizabeth Physicians Lexington, KentuckyLexington is the second-largest city in Kentucky
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