General Surgery

What is a Surgeon?

A general surgeon is a specialist prepared to manage a broad spectrum of surgical conditions affecting almost any area of the body. The surgeon establishes the diagnosis and provides the preoperative, operative and postoperative care to surgical patients and is usually responsible for the comprehensive management of the trauma victim and the critically ill. The surgeon has acquired knowledge of technical skills in congenital, infectious, metabolic and neoplastic problems relating to the head and neck, breast, abdomen, extremities, including the hand and the gastrointestinal, vascular and endocrine systems. The surgeon also uses a variety of diagnostic techniques.

J. Martin Hayes, M.D., earned his medical degree from Texas Tech University School of Medicine in 1995. He completed his surgical residency at the Louisiana State University Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery.

Reginald B. Trentham, M.D., earned his medical degree from State University of New York —Downstate in 1970. He completed his surgical residency at the University of Texas SW Medical School in Dallas in 1975 and finished his fellowship in Internal Medicine at Indiana University Hospital in 1971. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery.