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Top Docs ’11: Colon & Rectal Surgery
By Seattle Mag December 31, 1969
COLON & RECTAL SURGERY
Oliver Biggers, M.D., Colon and Rectal Clinic, 1370 116th Ave. NE, Suite 105, Bellevue, 425.453.8355, Overlake Hospital Medical Center; Meharry Medical College, 1975; colon cancer, inflammatory bowel disease
Richard Billingham, M.D.**, Swedish Colon and Rectal Clinic, 1101 Madison St., Suite 500, 206.386.6600, Swedish Medical Center, Northwest Hospital and Medical Center; University of Rochester, 1972; colon and rectal cancer and surgery, cancer prevention, inflammatory bowel disease
Steven Medwell, M.D., The Polyclinic, 1145 Broadway, 206.860.4440, Swedish Medical Center; Indiana University, 1973; colon and rectal surgery, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease
Originally published in July 2011
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