KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) – A Ketchikan hospital has announced it will not have a general surgeon on staff for a week.
The PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center’s only general surgeon will be out from 8 a.m. Monday through 8 a.m.
June 12, the Ketchikan Daily News reported. The hospital is alerting other health care providers, cruise lines and outside
facilities that typically recommend people to the hospital of the situation.
Patients in need of a general surgical procedure such as appendectomy or perforated colon during that time period will be transported to another facility, medical director Dr...
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