- Dec 2, 2023
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Baton Rouge General
Medical Center
8585 Picardy Ave.
Suite 210
Baton Rouge, LA
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
About Dr. Wood
Dr. Wood is a native of Louisiana who is an ENT in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. As a young child, he and his family lived in England then moved to Covington, Louisiana. While there, he was treated for leukemia, and afterwards, his family relocated to the Baton Rouge area. He returned to athletics and other typical activities of adolescence until he relapsed with leukemia in high school. He was unable to regularly attend classes, so he enrolled in the LSU Early Admissions Program. Following completion of chemotherapy, he transferred to the University of Virginia where he completed his undergraduate degree in biology. He then worked in cancer biology and studied at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He obtained is doctorate of medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine then completed his residency training at Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami School of Medicine. He has extensive surgical experience in all areas of otolaryngology but particular expertise in the treatment of thyroid and parathyroid disease. Dr. Wood is married to Kelly Heroman Wood, also a native of Louisiana, and has two children, Lucy Bea and John Isaac. He loves everything outdoors and playing with his dogs Pippi and Benny.
Areas of Expertise
Personized items are mass produced then something about you is stamped onto it to help you feel some connection: License plates, water bottles, greeting cards, medicine. Doctors and nurses are presented as interchangeable parts in the massive assembly line of commercial medicine.
The doctors that cared for me first as a child then as a young man- Richard Rathbone, Sheila Moore, Joseph Mirro- did not practice personized medicine. They knew me as a person with fears, hopes and dreams. Their medicine was personal … they actually cared for me as a person.
In an environment where medicine is more and more stripped of humanity, I choose a different path. If you’re looking for “drive through” medicine, I’m probably not the right fit for you. But if you’re looking for a place where you are listened to and cared for, come see us and find a place where medicine is still personal.
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