Constipation in Adults (cont.)
Medical Author:
Marc D. Basson, MD, PhD, MBA, FACS
Marc D. Basson, MD, PhD, MBA, FACSDr. Marc Basson received his undergraduate and medical education at the University of Michigan, surgical training at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Downstate Medical Center, and St. Mary's Hospital, and then earned a PhD in Experimental Pathology at Yale University before becoming an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Surgery at Yale. Medical Editor:
Bhupinder Anand, MD
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