Dr. Joshua Marc Careskey MD
Surgeon (Pediatric) | Pediatric Surgery
489 State St Suite 443 Bangor ME, 04401About
Dr. Joshua Careskey practices Pediatric Surgery in Bangor, ME. Dr. Careskey 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. Careskeydiagnoses, 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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Tufts Univ Sch of Med, Boston Ma 1977
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