General Surgery encompasses the treatment of patients with a wide range of problems including, but not limited to:
- The abdomen and gastrointestinal tract
- Hernias
- Endocrine glands
- Colon and rectum
- Obesity
General surgeons at Baystate include full-time faculty members as well as community physicians. General Surgical services offered at Baystate often employ methods that are at the leading edge of surgical technology, with strong emphases on patient safety and quality of outcomes.
Specific specialty areas include:
- Weight-Loss Surgery Program
- Colorectal surgery
- Thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal surgery
- Reflux, hiatal hernia, and other esophagogastric disorders
- Hernia repair and abdominal wall reconstruction
- Gallbladder and bile duct surgery
- Stomach and small bowel surgery
- Surgery of the spleen
- Urgent and emergent general surgery care
- General abdominal problems
- Minimally invasive method
A "FANTASTIC VOYAGE"
Read a visionary article by Neal Seymour, MD,
Chief of General Surgery at Baystate Medical Center,
on the dynamic changes to come in his field.
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These new advances mean less time in surgery, less recovery time and pain, and a faster return to normal life. Baystate Health has the physicians, staff and technology to perform some of the most advanced surgical techniques available.
General surgeons at Baystate Health have special expertise in:
- Bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery)
- Breast surgery
- Colorectal surgery
- Endocrine surgery
- Stomach and small bowel surgery
- Hernia repair
- Liver, bile duct and pancreatic surgery
- Laparoscopic and open adrenalectomy
- Parathyroidectomy (standard and minimally invasive surgery)
- Surgical oncology
- Thyroidectomy
- Minimally invasive surgery
