Dr. Michael G. Nolen, MD

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Get to know General Surgeon Dr. Michael G. Nolen, who serves patients in Enid, Oklahoma.

Dr. Nolen, a board-certified general surgeon, is affiliated with Enid VA Clinic, which is a part of VA Oklahoma City Health Care.

VA Oklahoma City Health Care System serves more than 63,000 Veterans in 48 counties in Oklahoma and 2 counties in north central Texas. The anchor facility is a 192-bed teaching hospital in the heart of Oklahoma City. It operates 16 outpatient clinics in Ada, Altus, Ardmore, Blackwell, Clinton, Enid, Lawton, Oklahoma City, Stillwater, and Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, and in Wichita Falls, Texas. 

With a broad educational background, Dr. Nolen graduated with his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in 1988. He then went on to perform his internship and residency in surgery at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine at Tulsa in 1989 and 1995, respectively.

Successful in his field, the doctor is board-certified in general surgery by the American Board of Surgery (ABS). The ABS is an independent, non-profit organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded for the purpose of certifying surgeons who have met a defined standard of education, training, and knowledge.

General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. A general surgeon performs a wide range of abdominal surgeries for many forms of intestinal and abdominal wall neoplasms, gallbladder disease, gastric and pancreatic disease. They follow the patient through critical care and surgical recovery all the way to outpatient care.

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