Dr. Joseph George Pastorek M.D., J.D.
Pain Management Specialist | Pain Medicine
609 E Gibson St Suite A Covington LA, 70433Rating
4/5
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Dr. Joseph Pastorek practices Pain Medicine in Covington, LA. Pain medicine is concerned with the prevention of pain, and the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients experiencing pain. Pain medicine physicians use a broad-based approach to treat all pain disorders, ranging from pain as a symptom of disease to pain as the primary disease. Dr. Pastorek serves as a consultant to other physicians but is often the principal treating physician, providing care at various levels; such as treating the patient directly, prescribing medication, prescribing rehabilitative services, performing pain relieving procedures, counseling patients and families, directing a multidisciplinary team, coordinating care with other healthcare providers, and providing consultative services.
Education and Training
Louisiana State Univ School Of Medicine In New Orleans 1977
Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans 1977
Board Certification
Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Addressing obesity in medical practice: is weight loss medically beneficial?
- Group B streptococcal colonization in the diabetic gravida patient.
- Sexually transmitted diseases. Should physicians more strongly advocate abstinence and monogamy?
- Antibiotic therapy for postcesarean endomyometritis.
- Fetal blood sampling from the intrahepatic vein: analysis of safety and clinical experience with 214 procedures.
- Benign cystic teratoma manifested as an umbilical hernia.
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura and hemolytic uremic syndrome in pregnancy.
- Antibiotic therapy for pelvic inflammatory disease.
- Temporary gastrostomy tubes in major gynecologic surgery.
- Pelvic inflammatory disease and tubo-ovarian abscess.
- Hepatitis B.
- Chlamydia trachomatis and premature contractions.
- Listeriosis as an obstetric complication in an immunocompromised patient.
- Fine-tuning the fluorescent antibody test for chlamydial infections in pregnancy.
- Ultrasonographic identification of the macrosomic fetus.
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