Dr. Douglas T Summerfield MD
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
1000 4TH ST SW MASON CITY IA, 50401About
Dr. Douglas Summerfield is a critical care surgeon practicing in Rochester, MN. Dr. Summerfield specializes in the needs of critically ill surgical patients. Critical care surgeons are experts in treating physiologic responses to tissue injury from trauma, burns, infections, acute inflammation, operation and more. They are also trained to know how such injuries interact with other diseases that a patient may have. As a critical care surgeon, Dr. Summerfield has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions.
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Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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