San Francisco General Hospital
General Surgery
Dr. William P. Schecter, MD
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William P. Schecter practices General Surgery. He studied medicine at Albany Medical College. He received 2 awards: "Fellow (FACS)" and "Fellow (FCCM)". William P. Schecter, MD is a published physician. He published 97 publications, including: '[Perioperative therapy of HIV infections].'
Publications
- A Consortium Approach to Surgical Education in a Developing Country: Educational Needs Assessment.
- The "found down" patient: A diagnostic dilemma.
- Commentary: Charity begins at home.
- Pediatric penetrating trauma: The epidemic continues.
- Mycotic Pseudoaneurysms Due to Injection Drug Use: A Ten-Year Experience.
- Management of enterocutaneous fistulas.
- The surgery of poverty.
- Meditation on mortality: lessons from a life in surgery.
- Beware of the sleeping panther: Comment on "Implementing Liberia's poverty reduction strategy: An assessment of emergency and essential surgical care".
- Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography in patients with pancreatic trauma.
- Prospective randomized trial of LC+LCBDE vs ERCP/S+LC for common bile duct stone disease.
- Operation Access: a proven model for providing volunteer surgical services to the uninsured in the United States.
- Enteric fistulas: principles of management.
- Penetrating bilateral renal injuries: principles of management.
- Inadequate mass-casualty knowledge base adversely affects treatment decisions by trauma care providers: Survey on hospital response following a terrorist bombing.
- Case managers in mass casualty incidents.
- Global health opportunities in surgery: a guide for medical students and faculty.
- Subcutaneous unilateral testicle implantation following contralateral orchiectomy and radical debridement for Fournier's gangrene: 24-year follow-up.
- Civilian hospital response to mass casualty events: basic principles.
- Biological dressings for the management of enteric fistulas in the open abdomen: a preliminary report.
- Injury in the elderly and end-of-life decisions.
- Disaster management: who's in charge?
- Open abdomen after trauma and abdominal sepsis: a strategy for management.
- Surgery and global health: a mandate for training, research, and service--a faculty perspective from the UCSF.
- The surgeon and acts of civilian terrorism: radiation exposure and injury.
- Blast lung injury: clinical manifestations, treatment, and outcome.
- Perioperative pain control: a strategy for management.
- Endovascular repair of an actively hemorrhaging gunshot injury to the abdominal aorta.
- Special considerations in perioperative pain management: audiovisual distraction, geriatrics, pediatrics, and pregnancy.
- Suicide: the unmet challenge of the trauma system.
- Cholinergic symptoms due to nerve agent attack: a strategy for management.
- An epidemic of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus soft tissue infections among medically underserved patients.
- San Francisco General Hospital.
- Gallbladder ascariasis in a patient with severe pancreatitis.
- Pain control in outpatient surgery.
- Surgical care of the HIV-infected patient: a moral imperative.
- Tracheal-innominate artery fistula caused by the endotracheal tube tip: case report and investigation of a fatal complication of prolonged intubation.
- Necrotizing fasciitis of the upper extremity.
- Tropical pyomyositis of the iliacus muscle in American Samoa.
- Ceftizoxime compared with cefamandole for treatment of soft tissue infections.
- Squamous cell carcinoma of the anus and HIV infection.
- Insurance-related differences in the risk of ruptured appendix.
- Gastric rupture and tension pneumoperitoneum complicating cardiopulmonary resuscitation: case report.
- Surgical risk assessment and management in patients with HIV disease.
- Laparoscopic adrenalectomy. Comparison of the lateral and posterior approaches.
- Cardiac stapling in the management of penetrating injuries of the heart: rapid control of hemorrhage and decreased risk of personal contamination.
- Transfusion significantly increases the risk for infection after splenic injury.
- Withdrawing and withholding life support in geriatric surgical patients. Ethical considerations.
- Emergent abdominal surgery in AIDS: experience in San Francisco.
- Trauma centers in a managed care environment.
- Volunteer low-risk outpatient surgery for uninsured patients in San Francisco. The Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition.
- Are universal precautions realistic?
- Management of upper airway obstruction in the intensive care unit.
- Peripartum pseudomalignant myositis ossificans of the finger.
- Surgery and AIDS. Reducing the risk.
- Wound healing after anorectal surgery in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients.
- Risk of exposure of surgical personnel to patients' blood during surgery at San Francisco General Hospital.
- Giant malignant tumors of the anus. A strategy for management.
- Surgical care of HIV-infected patients.
- Appendicitis in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
- Transmetatarsal amputation.
- Can general surgery improve the outcome of the head-injury victim in rural America? A review of the experience in American Samoa.
- Temporary colostomy for trauma. A new method to simplify colostomy closure.
- The effect of verapamil on cerebral cortical and spinal cord blood flow during proximal descending thoracic aortic occlusion.
- Intraluminal tube used as a drain in rats.
- Variables affecting outcome in blunt chest trauma: flail chest vs. pulmonary contusion.
- Critical care complications in the trauma patient.
- Hand deformity and sensory loss due to Hansen's disease in American Samoa.
- Acute tracheobronchial injury.
- HIV transmission to surgeons. Assessment of risk, infection control precautions, and standards of conduct.
- Use of sonography in the early detection of suppurative flexor tenosynovitis.
- The management of anorectal disease in HIV-positive patients.
- Withholding and withdrawal of life support from the critically ill.
- Kaposi's sarcoma of the rectum in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
- Cinematic nuclear scintigraphy reliably directs surgical intervention for patients with gastrointestinal bleeding.
- Local anesthesia in surgical practice.
- Laparoscopic vs open adrenalectomy for the treatment of primary hyperaldosteronism.
- Leukocytosis and free fluid are important indicators of isolated intestinal injury after blunt trauma.
- Occupational acquired HIV infection and workers' compensation.
- [Perioperative therapy of HIV infections].
- Necrotizing soft tissue infection masquerading as cutaneous abcess following illicit drug injection.
- Recurrent pyogenic cholangitis.
- Nuclear, biological and chemical weapons: what the surgeon needs to know.
- Human immunodeficiency virus and malignancy: thoughts on viral oncogenesis.
- Necrotizing pancreatitis: a surgical approach independent of documented infection.
- A passion for medicine: a commencement address to the Class of 2007.
- Surgical training and global health: initial results of a 5-year partnership with a surgical training program in a low-income country.
- Impact of military conflict on a civilian receiving hospital in a war zone.
- Civilian hospital response to a mass casualty event: the role of the intensive care unit.
- Surgeon and hospital leadership during terrorist-related multiple-casualty events: a coup d'état.
- Surgery in developing countries: essential training in residency.
- Panel on surgical practice.
- The surgeon and acts of civilian terrorism: biologic agents.
- The surgeon and acts of civilian terrorism: chemical agents.
- The "Sentinel Chain": a new concept for prediction of axillary node status in breast cancer patients.
- Synoptic operative reports: comment on "the computerized synoptic operative report".
Schools
Albany Medical College
San Francisco Genl Hospital
Mass Genl Hospital
Ucsf Med Center
San Francisco Hand Fellowship
Doctors Specialties
- Critical Care Surgery
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACS)
- Fellow (FCCM)
Education
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UCSF -
Massachusetts General Hospital -
Albany Medical College
Hospital
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UCSF Medical Center -
San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center
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