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David L. Rader, MDPC833 St Vincent\'s Drive, Suite 202, Birmingham, AL 35205 map
Dr. David Rader is a board-certified general surgeon at St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham, AL with over 30 years of experience in general surgery.
David L. Rader, MDPC
Insurance Accepted
- AARP
- Aetna
- Assurant Health
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Cash Pay
- Champva
- Cigna
- Cigna-HealthSpring
- Commerical Insurance Company
- Coventry Health Care
- First Health
- GEHA
- Health Choice
- Humana- Medicare Advantage--Humana Network
- Mailhandlers
- Medicare
- Medicare Part B
- Travelers
- Tricare
- Tricare for Life
- United Healthcare
- Viva Health
- Workers' Compensation
Bio
David L. Rader, M.D. is a general surgeon at St. Vincent's Hospital in Birmingham, AL. He is board-certified and has been in practice since 1985. He attended medical school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and completed his residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He performs a wide variety of surgery including laparoscopic gallbladder removal, hernia repair - traditional and laparoscopic, thyroid and parathyroid surgery, breast surgery including mastectomy and sentinel node biopsy for cancer, removal of cysts and fatty tumors, biopsies of breast lumps, skin lesions, lymph nodes, etc. He has been elected to "Best Doctors in America" for five consecutive years and has been featured in Birmingham Magazine.
Specialty
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General Surgery
As a general surgeon in Alabama, Dr. Rader performs a range of of surgeries and operations, usually focusing on areas and organs of the abdomen and their related organs. Dr. Rader may utilize invasive or minimally-invasive surgical techniques, with the latter reducing recovery time and stress on the patient's body.
Conditions Treated
- Abdominal hernia
- Abscesses
- Acute appendicitis
- Benign Breast Lesions
- Breast Cancer
- Gallstones
- Inguinal Hernia
- Lipoma / Skin Lesions
- Lymph node biopsy
- Non-functioning gallbladder
- Parathyroid adenoma
- Pilonidal Disease
- Thyroid Conditions
- Umbilical hernia
Services & Procedures
- Breast Biopsy
- Colonoscopy
- Excision of cysts, lipomas, skin lesions, abscesses, etc
- Laparoscopic appendectomy
- Laparoscopic Gallbladder Surgery
- Laparoscopic Hernia Repair
- Lymph node biopsy
- Mastectomy
- Muscle biopsy
- Parathyroidectomy
- Pilonidal cyst excision
- Portacath placement
- Temporal Artery Biopsy
- Thyroidectomy
- Umbilical, ventral, incisional, femoral hernia surgery
Special Interests
- Laparoscopic Surgery
- Thyroidectomy
Education & Training
Medical School
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University of Alabama School of Medicine
MD • 1980
Residency
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Mayo Clinic • Rochester, MN
Residency in General Surgery • 1980 - 1985
Hospital Affiliations
- St. Vincent's Hospital
Languages Spoken
- English
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