Dr. Tawfik Barakat MD
Anesthesiologist
901 GRANT ST HARVARD IL, 60033About
Dr. Tawfik Barakat is an anesthesiologist practicing in Glendale Heights, IL. Dr. Barakat 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. Barakat also might help manage pain after an operation.
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Aleppo University Faculty of Med Syria,Syria 1989
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