New Surgeon Brings Combat Experience to Sentara Albemarle Medical Center
February 23, 2021
February 23, 2021
NORFOLK, Virginia, Feb. 23 -- Sentara Healthcare issued the following news:
Elizabeth City is a long way from the hot and dusty battlefields of Iraq. Few people may feel the difference as acutely as Nicole Yeshtokin, DO, a new general surgeon at Sentara Albemarle Medical Center. She is a former Air Force major who spent six months with a forward MASH-type unit near the Syrian border in 2017, deployed to a cinder block building with an orthopedic surgeon, a nurse and two OR techs.
Elizabeth City is a long way from the hot and dusty battlefields of Iraq. Few people may feel the difference as acutely as Nicole Yeshtokin, DO, a new general surgeon at Sentara Albemarle Medical Center. She is a former Air Force major who spent six months with a forward MASH-type unit near the Syrian border in 2017, deployed to a cinder block building with an orthopedic surgeon, a nurse and two OR techs.