Dr. Carlos M Choucino MD
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1000 Walters St Lake Charles LA, 70607About
Dr. Carlos Choucino is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Lake Charles, LA. Dr. Choucino specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
Education and Training
Univ Nac Mayor De San Marcos- Prog Acad De Med Humana- Lima- Peru 1986
National Higher University of San Marcos / Academy of Human Medicine 1986
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