General surgeon offers services in Kimball weekly

Kimball welcomes a new general surgeon on staff, with a focus in rural surgical practice, meaning a general family medicine approach to surgery.

Dr. Matthew Jansen comes to town from Sidney once each week to provide services as varied as those who see him at a time when most surgeons narrow their focus to provide a very specific set of procedures. Jansen opted instead to learn a wide variety of procedures.

"I perform any basic surgery, whether that is scopes, hernias; I'm just trying to meet the need of the community and bring that back here," he said. "The modern way medicine goes is you do a...