Winchester Susan B MD

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"Healing is more than a technical skill. It is an art focusing on the whole person, mind, body and spirit." This is my philosophy and guides my interaction with patients. I have come to believe that our relationship is part of the healing process and that it is very important for your physician not to compartmentalize your care and only provide technical care, but also to provide a warm friendship which can facilitate your healing. My patients are treated as I would want to be treated and as I would want any family members treated. Therefore, I spend the time necessary to develop a trusting relationship with my patients. This extends beyond the boundaries of my office practice and means that I am available for questions and concerns on a wider basis throughout the day and week.
During my college years at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, I worked at Crawford Long Hospital as an operating room technician. It was during this time that I noticed that frequently patients were lined up outside of the operating room waiting for their procedure with no attempt to provide any support for their understandable anxiety and fear. This experience and especially dealing with women awaiting treatment for breast cancer had a lasting impression upon me. I feel that my practice is intended to address this real occasional deficit in medical care.

I finished my surgical residency in New York in 1989 and married my husband, the Reverend William Wilson, an Episcopal Priest, that year. Initially, I had considered medical missions and, in fact, met William discussing his work in Bolivia. He is the founder of Amistad Mission, which cares for orphaned children in Bolivia. We also have a medical work in the rural setting of the Andes Mountains as well as a feeding program for the children there and a school. I now work as a medical liaison for that mission.

We have two children, which we feel are gifts from God and my patients keep up with my family through our reciprocal relationship and through bulletin boards watching my children grow. I feel that this friendship and the warmth of my sharing and openness also is a strong ingredient in patients feeling comfortable and at home with me.

I am called by God to be a physician and I am certain that he enables my judgment intraoperatively. Thus, my practice offers a "high tech, high touch approach and embraces caring for my patient's mind, body and spirit."