Peter Jernigan, MD

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Peter Jernigan, MD

General and Bariatric surgery. Fellowship-trained in laparoscopic and robotic surgery.

07/25/2023

In the classroom today picking up some new tips an tricks for robotic surgery

09/07/2022

Had fun operating today with the newest member of the RMC Surgery family, Dr. Matt Seaman!
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08/01/2022

Taking a break from regularly scheduled to bring you Monday with

06/28/2022

FACS! 🥳

06/22/2022

Warning: spooky stuff ahead. It’s not Halloween but the ghouls have been out the last few days. Swipe to see an appendix and a gallbladder that look like they’re straight out of The Walking Dead. We usually think of gangrene as something involving extremities (hands and feet) but when internal organs become so sick that they start to die they become gangrenous as well. Fortunately both of these patients did great once we took care of the “Walkers”. Both were able to be treated laparoscopically with small incisions.

06/20/2022

Robotic team building: Don’t forget to shake hands at the end of the case and tell the ‘bot “nice case”

06/05/2022

Doing doctor stuff

06/04/2022

What makes a gallbladder so grumpy? Usually gallstones. Gallstones are formed when cholesterol and minerals crystallize inside the gallbladder. Most commonly gallstones sit unnoticed but sometimes they can block the opening of the gallbladder causing brief episodes of pain and nausea (“biliary colic”) or inflammation and infection of the gallbladder (“cholecystitis”). Other times gallstones can pass from the gallbladder into the bile duct causing bile obstruction/jaundice (“choledocholithiasis”), bile duct infection (“cholangitis”) or pancreatitis.

When gallstones become symptomatic the solution is removal of the gallbladder. Here’s a case of cholecystitis caused by a rather large stone.

05/31/2022

I got a lot of questions about this one so here’s the follow-up. It was an epidermal inclusion cyst, a benign cyst containing skin cells. They can get very large and can be uncomfortable or even become infected. Infected cysts are sometimes treated with antibiotics and/or drainage. Complete removal of the cyst is usually required to prevent the cyst coming back. And as for the question “Why didn’t you cut it open?” cutting open surgical specimens makes it harder for the pathologist to give an accurate diagnosis. Cutting open a cancer or possible cancer specimen may make it impossible for the pathologist to say whether the cancer was invasive or not. Good for Instagram but bad medicine.

05/30/2022

Whatever you have planned today, take some time to remember and thank those men and women who have given their lives in defense of liberty.

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Oxford, AL
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