
Dr. Michael D Wertheimer M.D.
Surgical Oncologist | Surgical Oncology
Umass Memorial Health Care 119 Belmont Street Worcester MA, 01605About
Dr. Michael Wertheimer is a surgical oncologist practicing in Worcester, MA. Dr. Wertheimer specializes in diagnosing, staging and treating cancer-related symptoms. Surgical oncologists also decide if the patient is a candidate for surgery or other cancer treatments based on certain factors such as age, physical fitness and other possible coexisting medical conditions
Education and Training
Univ of Pa Sch of Med, Philadelphia Pa 1971
Board Certification
SurgeryAmerican Board of SurgeryABS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Humanities in surgery, a life threatening situation: communicating the diagnosis.
- Ethics and communication in the surgeon-patient relationship.
- Against minimalism in breast cancer follow-up.
- Unresolved, atraumatic breast hematoma: post-irradiation or secondary breast angiosarcoma.
- Breast cancer screening for primary care physicians.
- Surgical management of necrotizing pancreatitis.
- Ethics and communication in the surgeon-patient relationship.
- Meditation, melatonin and breast/prostate cancer: hypothesis and preliminary data.
- A complication involving a braided hook-wire localization device.
- Preoperative angiography and embolization of the site of intermittent acute small bowel bleeding with a radiopaque microcoil: facilitated precise surgical excision of the source.
Awards
- American College of Surgeons. Fellow
Treatments
- Breast Surgery
Dr. Michael D Wertheimer M.D.'s Practice location
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- Dr. Buffi M Ward MD55 Lake Ave N Worcester MA 01655
- Dr. Kimberly A Lieber MD22 Asylum Street Milford MA 01757
- Dr. Julie Ann Alosi MD123 SUMMER ST WORCESTER MA 01608
- Dr. Jennifer F Tseng M.D.119 Belmont St Worcester MA 01605
- Dr. Sonia Ortiz-pagan M.D.33 Kendall St Worcester MA 01605
- Dr. Laura A. Lambert MD119 Belmont St Worcester MA 01605
Nearest Hospitals
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55 LAKE AVENUE NORTH WORCESTER MA 1655ADCARE HOSPITAL OF WORCESTER INCl
107 LINCOLN STREET WORCESTER MA 1605UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER INCl
55 LAKE AVENUE NORTH WORCESTER MA 1655ST VINCENT HOSPITALl
123 SUMMER STREET WORCESTER MA 1608