General Surgery
Appointments
Education & Training
A general surgeon has specialized knowledge and experience related to the diagnosis, preoperative, operative, and postoperative management of diagnoses involving multiple different organ systems. General surgeons are medical doctors that have completed at least 13 years of formal training. Board certified general surgeons must maintain their certification with continuous, life-long learning and re-certification examinations.
Meet Our Provider
Our general surgeon, Dr. Carrie Newton, is board certified in General Surgery and has expertise in traditional, laparoscopic and robotic surgical procedures as well as endoscopy. Dr. Newton believes in creating a patient care partnership whereby diagnosis and treatment is accompanied by education, individualized approaches and patient empowerment in decision making.
Dr. Newton’s areas of specialty are:
- General surgery- gallbladder, gastrointestinal, hernia, lesion/cyst excision
- Endoscopy- esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD), colonoscopy
- Breast surgery- biopsy, lumpectomy, mastectomy, lymph node biopsy
- Cancer surgery- breast, colon, port-a-cath placement
- Laparoscopic and robotic surgery
- Acute care surgery (appendectomy, bowel obstruction, incarcerated hernia, perforated viscus, abscesses, etc.)