General Practitioners

• Arthritis
• Primary Care
  While most patients only require pain management post-operatively, others may benefit from pain management therapy. It is important to talk with your primary care physician to discuss what therapies may be best suited for your unique pain problems.
• Emergency Care
  If you experience any unexpected pain, heavy bleeding or a high temperature after surgery, call your doctor or immediately go to the emergency room.

Gynecologists

• Obstetrics
  To help anesthesiologists provide the best and safest patient care possible, national standards have been developed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists to enhance the safety and quality of anesthesia. Specific standards already have been developed regarding patient care before surgery, basic methods of monitoring patients during surgery, patient care during recovery, and for conduction of anesthesia in obstetrics. New standards continue to be developed to further ensure patient safety. These standards, along with today’s sophisticated monitoring and anesthesia equipment, as well as improved medications and techniques, have contributed enormously toward making anesthesia safer than ever before.
• Labor and Delivery
  Today’s anesthesia practice has evolved into the treatment of chronic and cancer-related pain as well as pain experienced during childbirth. Metro’s physicians routinely utilize three common techniques – general, regional, and neuraxial.

Internists

• Internal Medicine
  Metro Anesthesia’s physicians are equipped with the necessary knowledge for a successful surgery. Each of our physicians has completed a four-year college program, four years of medical school and four more years of anesthesiology residency. They are educated in cardiology, pulmonary medicine, critical care medicine, internal medicine, pharmacology and surgery. They have a deep understanding of the body’s response to surgical stress and how to medically manage it.
• Urology
• Endoscopy

Neurologists

• Autism
  Interests include special needs children and adults where she has done volunteer work as well as served as a board member for Nonpareil, an advanced education institute in technology for people on the autism spectrum. With her husband and two children, she is active in Firewheel Church in Garland and participates in the Engage Hope Here projects in her local community.

Psychiatrists

• Anxiety

Endocrinologist

• Diabetes Care

Radiologist

• Ultrasound
  He received his medical degree from the Universidad Evangelica de El Salvador. Afterwards he did two years of general surgery residency at Yale University. He then completed his Residency in Anesthesiology at Yale University as well. Following his residency, he went to New York City to do a fellowship in Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management at the Hospital for Special Surgery, a teaching affiliate of Weill Cornell Medical College. There he gained extensive knowledge in orthopedic anesthesia and pain management that he now uses in all surgical populations. He held an academic position as assistant professor with the Yale University School of Medicine Anesthesia Department before moving to Texas. His main interests are peripheral nerve blocks and ultrasound use in the perioperative setting.

Surgeons

• General Surgery
  Dr. Merchun received his undergraduate degree from Indiana University and attended medical school at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He completed an internship in General Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina, and residency at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Texas Medical Association, the Dallas County Medical Association, and the American Medical Association.
• Orthopedic Surgery
  Regional anesthesia produces a state of insensibility at a particular region of the body by interrupting sensory nerve conductivity. The most common regional anesthetic techniques include peripheral nerve blocks commonly placed during orthopedic surgery.
• Neurosurgery
  Dr. Ettinger received his medical degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He then trained in neurosurgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and then went on to complete his Residency in Anesthesiology at the John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He is board certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology, and is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Texas Society of Anesthesiologists, the Dallas County Medical Society and the Texas Medical Association.

Plastic Surgeons

• Plastic Surgery
• Cosmetic Surgery

Podiatrists

• General Podiatry
  Both graduating residents and seasoned anesthesiologists are welcome to apply. We are an all physician group with 100% of our members being Board Certified or Board Eligible. We have a comprehensive mentorship program in place to help each new member out of residency get established in private practice. Your success as a new member is our success. Our caseload includes general, plastics, ortho, bariatrics, spine, gyn, OB, GI, ENT, neuro, urology, vascular, surgical oncology, cath lab, ophtho, podiatry, pediatric ENT, pediatric dental, and rare trauma. Caseload does not include hearts at the present time, but we are interested in individuals interested in taking care of cardiac cases. We provide anesthetics in hospitals, surgery centers, and offices. Our compensation is 100% production based with a blended rate. We have a three year, true partnership track. If you are interested in applying, please fill out the form below which will go to our recruiting team of fellow member physicians!

Allergists

• Allergies