Dr. George Lum MD
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
1425 S Main St Walnut Creek CA, 94596About
Dr. George Lum is a critical care surgeon practicing in Walnut Creek, CA. Dr. Lum 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. Lum 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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