Dr. Peter Langer
Physician of the highest category. Doctor of Medical Sciences. Senior physician at Wolfson Medical Center, surgeon at Assuta Hospital and the Israeli Assa Medical center, specialist in general surgery.
Medical experience: more than 25 years. Languages: Hebrew, Russian, German, English.
Dr. Peter Langer is one of the best surgeons in Israel, mastering advanced surgical technologies and applying them in treating a wide variety of diseases. A specialist in general surgery, breast surgery and abdominal surgery.
Dr. Langer studied the fundamentals of medicine at the Chelyabinsk Medical Institute, which he graduated from in 1987. An internship, basic specialization in general surgery and a five-year fellowship in the surgical department of a Chelyabinsk city hospital followed. In 1993 Dr. Langer took a course in emergency surgery of the abdominal organs and gastrointestinal tract and for several years worked as an abdominal surgeon at a city emergency hospital. After immigrating to Israel and validating his medical diploma at Tel Aviv University, Peter Langer improved his skills in general surgery and completed a special ATLS course in emergency trauma care. In 1998–2000 Dr. Langer worked as a surgeon at Beilinson Medical Center, and from 2000 to 2009 he operated at the Edith Wolfson clinic.
Among colleagues Dr. Langer has earned a reputation as an unquestioned authority thanks to his high professional qualification and ability to find optimal approaches to treating any surgical disease. Dr. Langer actively consults patients on an outpatient and inpatient basis, masters the latest protocols of surgical treatment of internal organ diseases, studies high-tech surgical methods and introduces them into his clinical practice. He is a member of the Israeli Association of Surgeons and the author of more than 30 scientific papers.
Dr. Peter Langer's professional interests and capabilities cover all of general clinical surgery, including:
- breast operations, surgical treatment of breast cancer;
- hernia repair, reduction of abdominal wall hernias with subsequent repair, surgery for strangulated hernia, repair of diaphragmatic hernia;
- gallbladder surgery for gallstone disease (calculous cholecystitis);
- appendectomy (operations for catarrhal and complicated appendicitis);
- removal of the breast for oncological diseases and post-traumatic conditions;
- surgical treatment of hemorrhoids and more.
Dr. Langer masterfully uses modern minimally invasive endoscopic surgery methods, achieving a minimal number of complications and significantly reducing the likelihood of side effects.