General Practitioners

• Medical Weight Loss
  Colonoscopy is an examination in which the doctor uses a flexible instrument containing a small camera to transmit of the image of the colon onto a large screen. Colonoscopy can detect ulcers, inflamed tissue, and abnormal growths called polyps. The procedure is used to look for early signs of colorectal cancer and can help doctors diagnose unexplained changes in bowel habits, rectal bleeding, abdominal pain, anemia, or weight loss. If doctors find polyps during the procedure, colonoscopy can be used to remove them.
• Primary Care
  If you are enrolled in a HMO plan, please contact your insurance carrier to determine whether a referral is required prior to seeing a specialist.  If so, it is your responsibility to work with your primary care provider to obtain the referral from the insurance carrier.  The need to obtain the needed prior referral is for you protection, for if your insurance carrier refuses to apply benefits to your claim because of failure to obtain a referral, you would potentially be held financially responsible for the cost of the specialist’s services.
• Emergency Care
  If you have an emergency, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room. If you have an urgent health need after hours, you may call the office number at (706) 868-0104. Our answering service will take your number, locate the physician on-call, who will return your call as soon as possible.
• Colonoscopy
  A colonoscopy is a procedure that examines the colon to look for abnormalities, including cancer. The scope used by the doctor contains a light and a tiny camera at the end, and enables small tools to be passed through a channel to take tissue samples, remove polyps and perform therapeutic procedures.
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  GCA’s board-certified GI doctors provide expert care in all aspects of colonoscopy; treatment of colitis, gastroesophageal reflux (GERD), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), pancreatitis and liver disease.

Internists

• Gastroenterology
  At Gastroenterology Consultants of Augusta, we are dedicated to preventing, diagnosing, and treating gastrointestinal conditions. Learning about the conditions and diseases that you or a loved on are experiencing is an important part of maintaining good health. We offer the education section below to summarize some of the most common diseases and conditions that we diagnose, treat and work to prevent.
• Colon Cancer
  A polyp is a growth on the lining of the colon. Some polyps are precancerous but most are not. All colon cancers start off as polyps, so if we can free you of polyps, you will not get colon cancer. Consequently, all polyps are removed?
• Endoscopy
  Our new outpatient endoscopy center is adjacent to our Evans office. We provide expert care and personal attention in our convenient, state of the art setting.