Dr. Sachin Patil, MD

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Get to know General Surgeon Dr. Sachin Patil, who serves patients in Laurel, Mississippi.

Dr. Patil is a board-certified and fellowship-trained general surgeon practicing at South Central Regional Medical Center in Laurel, Mississippi. Founded in 1952, the 285-bed, public not-for-profit hospital primarily serves a 4-county area: Jones County, Jasper County, Wayne County, and Smith County.

The primary focus of the South Central Regional Medical Center Health System is to provide excellent healthcare services to the residents of South Central Mississippi and to improve the quality of life in the region. As its mission states: “Excellent Care and Service. Every Patient. Every Interaction. Every Time.”

Back in 2001, Dr. Patil obtained his medical degree from Mahadevappa Rampure Medical College in India. Upon relocating to the United States, he went on to serve his residency in general surgery at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in 2016, followed by his fellowship in hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery at Ascension St. John Hospital in 2017.

Continuously practicing and nourishing his surgical skills, the doctor is board-certified in general surgery by the American Board of Surgery, 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.

Additionally, he is a member of the Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association, whose mission is to disseminate knowledge, foster research and innovation, advance education and training, and encourage multidisciplinary collaboration. Dr. Patil has also accomplished proficiency in the advanced level of robotic surgery. 

General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on cancer and non-cancer conditions of abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, appendix, colon, liver, bile ducts, gallbladder, pancreas, adrenal glands, and often the thyroid gland and breast. A general surgeon performs a wide range of surgeries, including hernia repair, cholecystectomy (gallbladder surgery), appendectomy (appendix surgery), gastrectomy (stomach surgery), colectomy (colon surgery), hepatectomy (liver surgery) and Whipple procedure (pancreatic surgery), thyroidectomy (thyroid surgery) and mastectomy (breast surgery). They follow the patient through critical care and surgical recovery all the way to outpatient care.

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