Mr Gareth Tervit

Mr Gareth Tervit is a general surgeon. General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on the alimentary canal. This includes the oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland.

General surgeons can treat a wide variety of major and minor colon and rectal diseases. These include inflammatory bowel diseases (such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease), diverticulitis, colon and rectal cancer, gastrointestinal bleeding and haemorrhoids. They also deal with diseases involving the skin, breast, soft tissue, trauma, peripheral artery disease and hernias. General surgeons also perform endoscopic procedures such as gastroscopy, colonoscopy and laparoscopic procedures.