Best Doctors/Dentists

Hospitals: Community Care

Medicine is big business. In fact, more people work in the healthcare industry in Louisiana than any other industry. That’s more than the energy, the financial and the agricultural sectors combined. According to a joint economic impact study conducted by…

Louisiana Life's Best Doctors 2015-2016

Questions & Answers about Methodology How were the best doctors selected? Louisiana Life used the services of Best Doctors, Inc., a company founded in 1989 by Harvard Medical School professors. The company is also the pre-eminent organization at gathering professional…

Top Dentists

135 dentists in 7 specialties across Acadiana’s 22 parishes

Toughest Case: Untreated Patients

Daniel Domingue General Dentistry | Lafayette acadianadentistry.com For Dr. Danny Domingue, his toughest cases as a dentist are actually the cases he hasn’t tackled. “The toughest cases for me are the patients that go untreated. It's tough to see patients…

Tricky Conditions

Name: Stanley Ray KordischLocation: Lake CharlesSpecialty: GynecologyEducation: •    USL (1972) •    LSU Medical School New Orleans (1976) •    Texas Tech (Lubbock) (1980) One of stanley kordisch’s most difficult cases in his medical career involved  a woman who was six months…

Saving a Newborn

Name: Ruthanne GallagherLocation: GraySpecialty: PediatricsEducation: •    USL (1974) •    LSU School of Medicine (1978) Ruthanne Gallagher’s most challenging case was a patient who was three days old. Upon discovering that the infant had a significant fever and poor coloring, Gallagher…

Acadiana Doctor Profiles

      Darric Baty, M.D. Specialty: Pediatric Neurosurgery Ball State University 1998 Indiana University School of Medicine 2002 Native of Springport, Ind.     My Toughest Case 40-plus-hour operations Forty hours is full workweek to most. Dr. Darric Baty,…