Dr. Samuel Rice-townsend M.D.
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
4800 SAND POINT WAY NE SEATTLE WA, 98105About
Dr. Samuel Rice-townsend practices Pediatric Surgery in Boston, MA. Dr. Rice-townsend treats children who have an illness, injury, or disease that requires surgery. Some of the surgical problems seen by pediatric surgeons are often quite different from those commonly seen by adult or general surgeons. Dr. Rice-townsenddiagnoses, treats, and manages childrens surgical needs such as abnormalities of the groin in childhood and, surgical repair of birth defects, surgical care of tumors, transplantation operations, and endoscopic procedures.
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