Dr. Marcus Q. Polk M.D.
Anesthesiologist
1240 HWY 54 West Suite 602 Fayetteville GA, 30214About
Dr. Marcus Polk is an anesthesiologist practicing in Jonesboro, GA. Dr. Polk ensures the safety of patients who are about to undergo surgery. Anestesiologists specialize in general anesthesia, which will (put the patient to sleep), sedation, which will calm the patient or make him or her unaware of the situation, and regional anesthesia, which just numbs a specific part of the body. As an anesthesiologist, Dr. Polk also might help manage pain after an operation.
Education and Training
Jackson State University B.S. Biology 1990
Oregon Health Science University M.D. 1994
Board Certification
AnesthesiologyAmerican Board of AnesthesiologyABA
Provider Details
Treatments
- Dekompressor Discectomy
- Discography
- Epidural Steroid Injection
- Facet Joint Injection
- Fluoroscopic Guided Hyalgan Injection
- Hip Joint Injection
- Kyphoplasty
- Lumbar Sympathetic Block
- Medial Branch Block
- Nerve Conduction Study
- Radiofrequency Neurotomy
- Sacroiliac (si) Joint Injection
- Shoulder Joint Injection
- Spinal Cord Stimulation
- Stellate Ganglion Block
- Transforaminal Epidural Injection
- Vertebroplasty
- Neuroplasty
Professional Memberships
- Professional Member American Society of Anesthesiologists
- Professional Member American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians
- Professional Member International Spine Intervention Society
- Professional Member Georgia Society of Interventional Pain Physicians
- Professional Member Society for Pediatric Anesthesia
- Professional Member Georgia Society of Anesthesiologists
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