
Dr. Amy Kathryn Dickey MD
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
1959 NE PACIFIC ST # BB-527 SEATTLE WA, 98195About
Dr. Amy Dickey is a critical care surgeon practicing in SEATTLE, WA. Dr. Dickey specializes in the needs of critically ill surgical patients. Critical care surgeons are experts in treating physiologic responses to tissue injury from trauma, burns, infections, acute inflammation, operation and more. They are also trained to know how such injuries interact with other diseases that a patient may have. As a critical care surgeon, Dr. Dickey has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions.
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