General Surgery Services in La Grange, KY

General Surgery Close to Home Healthtalks Transcript:

Richard Pokorny, MD, General Surgery
Baptist Health La Grange

Richard Pokorny, MD: General surgery is a broad-based specialty. We take care of a lot of surgical conditions, principally abdomen, but chest, such as breast, and head and neck as well. We do a lot of things, and that makes all the difference in the world, because doing a lot of things makes you good at a lot of things. [This] knowledge base allows you to broaden your horizons when you're taking care of somebody and not lose the forest for the trees. We are specialists, we just specialize in a very wide variety of surgeries.

I'm part of a very large group at Baptist [Health] Louisville. We started coming out to La Grange in January. One of my other partners, Lindsay Arnold, MD, comes out here, and that's where the specialization comes into play. Dr. Arnold has an extensive breast surgery practice, and I do all sorts of advanced laparoscopic, minimally invasive abdominal surgeries.

As general surgeons, we provide things to a smaller community where you don't have to go to Louisville, yet you still get the quality of care you would associate with a larger medical center. We are expanding the horizons of all the advanced general surgery care that can be provided here at La Grange. There's very little limit to what we can provide out here.