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HEMORRHOID CARE CENTER
PROCTOLOGY ASSOCIATES

Our office is conveniently located in West Phoenix on Thomas Rd. 1-block East of the Agua Fria Fwy (Loop 101) & 1-mile North of I-10.

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PROCTOLOGY ASSOCIATES
HEMORRHOID CARE CENTER
Optima Vein Care
Estrella Medical Plaza I
9305 W. Thomas Road
Suite 490
Phoenix AZ 85037
Tel: (480) 496-2696

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The Staff and I look forward to helping you
with any problems or concerns that you may have.
Please feel free to contact us by phone.

Sincerely,

About The Doctor

Rick A. Shacket, D.O., M.D. (H.)
Dr. Rick Shacket is a board certified specialist; certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Proctology, the American Board of Laser Surgery, and the American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians. He is a Fellow of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery.

Dr. Shacket received a Bachelors Degree from Hillsdale College, in Hillsdale, Michigan. He received his Medical Degree from the Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, in Pomona, California. He received postdoctoral training in homeopathic medicine from the American Medical College of Homeopathy, in Phoenix, Arizona. He is dually licensed by the State of Arizona as a Doctor of Medicine (Homeopathic), and as an Osteopathic Physician and Surgeon. He served an internship at Hillside Hospital, in San Diego, California. Dr. Shacket received specialty training in colonoscopy and anal rectal surgery in a proctology postdoctoral training program affiliated with Phoenix General Hospital, Arizona. Doctors Shacket and Bernhard cofounded the first hemorrhoid specialty clinics in the States of Arizona and California in 1986.

In 2007, Dr. Shacket served as a Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Clinical Education at Midwestern University Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine in Glendale, where he lectured medical students on the diagnosis and treatment of colon, rectal, and anal disorders. He was featured in the Phoenix Magazine 2008 Top Doctors issue for his work in Phlebology.

Dr. Shacket is a national lecturer on the subject of proctology and hemorrhoids. He is the author of most of the text found on this web site, of a medical textbook on the the treatment of hemorrhoids, and of numerous articles that have appeared in medical publications and newspapers throughout the country.

Dr. Shacket is from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He has four children, and lives in Phoenix, Arizona and La Jolla, California.