Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Dr. Bill Wyatt and Krista Sarchet of Scottsbluff discuss her ongoing wrist pain after an auto accident about two years ago.
"One slice of a pizza."
That's how Dr. Bill Wyatt, the newest doctor at Kimball Health Services, refers to the industry of plastic surgery.
Plastic surgery is cosmetic in many minds across the country.
As Wyatt explained the numbers, there are 5,600 plastic surgeons in the United States and 90 percent of those doctors focus and work in the cosmetic industry.
The remaining 10 percent of surgeons work in different areas of plastic surgery - as does Wyatt. However, when plastic surgery is a want instead of a need, Wyatt said he is willing to take on that clientele as well.
Kimball Health Services is introducing Wyatt and welcoming him to the community as he begins another stretch in his outstanding career in the medical profession.
"I will primarily be working from Kimball Health Services and will have clinics in Pine Bluffs and Kimball as time evolves," he said.
With many years of experience, Wyatt recently retired from Cheyenne Regional Medical Center, where he began his career in 1998.
He found the retirement was not suited for him just yet and decided that it was time for a slight change. He wanted to stay in the practice of medicine, and he wanted to stay near Cheyenne.
A man of many talents when it comes to the operating table, Wyatt is ready and willing to tackle nearly any procedure from head to foot.
During a presentation to the KHS staff last Friday, April 12, Wyatt expressed the different aspects of his career and many operations he has successfully completed. Operations include cleft pallet procedures, smaller joint orthopedic operations, facial surgeries, wounds, infections, snake and spider bites and much more.
Wyatt is board-certified plastic, reconstruction and aesthetic surgeon - as well as being board-certified in general surgery and surgical wound care. He also is a certified hand surgeon.
"If these occasions arise, we will be able to take care of most patients here in Kimball," Wyatt said.
With many different medical professionals needed in surgery instances - including nurses, billing and coding staff, physical therapists and others - Wyatt reassured the KHS staff that this is a team sport.
"Being able to provide these procedures to the community will make the hospital better," he said. "We need to instill confidence in the community that these types of operations can be done here in town and that there is not as large of a need to send our patients to out of town to specialists."
