{"id":277909,"date":"2026-03-31T12:33:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/doctors\/nirmal-pathak-md\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T05:12:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T10:12:49","slug":"nirmal-pathak-md","status":"publish","type":"doctors","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/doctors\/nirmal-pathak-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Nirmal Pathak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"grid\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 maincopy blogCore\">\n<p>El Dr. Nirmal Pathak se licenci\u00f3 en Biolog\u00eda con especializaci\u00f3n en Qu\u00edmica y Bellas Artes en la Universidad de Miami, Florida. A continuaci\u00f3n, pas\u00f3 a obtener su Doctorado en Medicina de la Universidad de Miami Miller School of Medicine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Complet\u00f3 su residencia en Medicina Interna y una beca en Hematolog\u00eda y Oncolog\u00eda en el SUNY Downstate Health Sciences Center de Brooklyn, Nueva York.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cree que los pacientes son individuos \u00fanicos y que no siempre encajan en unas directrices uniformes y que, aunque las directrices son importantes, s\u00f3lo sirven para orientar nuestra toma de decisiones. Su filosof\u00eda es que las decisiones m\u00e9dicas deben estar siempre centradas en el paciente y respeta la autonom\u00eda de \u00e9ste en la toma de decisiones. Considera que su trabajo como m\u00e9dico es informar, educar y asesorar a sus pacientes y ayudarles a tomar decisiones que se ajusten a sus objetivos, deseos y creencias.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>El Dr. Pathak eligi\u00f3 ejercer la Hematolog\u00eda y Oncolog\u00eda porque quer\u00eda ayudar a guiar a los pacientes a trav\u00e9s de los complejos procesos de toma de decisiones que conlleva el tratamiento de enfermedades malignas. Sus experiencias personales con los diagn\u00f3sticos de c\u00e1ncer de sus familiares le ayudan a asesorar a sus pacientes como si fueran sus propios familiares. Se esfuerza por ofrecer una atenci\u00f3n oncol\u00f3gica de vanguardia y anima a sus pacientes a buscar segundas opiniones, ya que \u00e9l mismo tiene experiencia en la inscripci\u00f3n de pacientes en ensayos cl\u00ednicos en centros acad\u00e9micos de alto nivel.  Es un firme defensor de los derechos de los pacientes y siempre har\u00e1 lo que crea que es mejor para sus pacientes y cree que, sea cual sea el obst\u00e1culo, juntos encontrar\u00e1n la manera de avanzar.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cuando no trabaja, le gusta pasar tiempo al aire libre con su mujer, sus dos hijos y su perro Noodle. Tambi\u00e9n le gustan las actividades art\u00edsticas, en concreto la cer\u00e1mica y el soplado de vidrio.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":287545,"template":"","specialty":[265],"language":[],"keywords":[],"address":[630,631],"class_list":["post-277909","doctors","type-doctors","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","specialties-hematology-and-oncology","addresses-58_66","addresses-58_67"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nirmal Pathak MD - Southcoast Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/doctors\/nirmal-pathak-md\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nirmal Pathak MD - Southcoast Health\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Nirmal Pathak earned his Bachelor of Science in Biology with a minor in both chemistry and fine arts from the University of Miami in Miami, Florida. 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