Dr. William L. Coker Jr, MD

I went in July of 2018 and heard the words cancer. The managing of this situation was totally professional and swift.
Went back in January 2019. Dr Coker is pro active and always ready to listen and put you at ease

I have been visiting this practice for more than twenty years now, and today, November 28, 2017, I still honestly believe it is the finest and most reliable dermatology resource in the Tidewater area.. It has recently reached its forty-fourth successful year. It was begun by Dr. William L. Coker, who is still actively in practice, and later joined by his daughter, Dr. Leslie R. Coker, who followed in her father's footsteps to become an accomplished dermatological surgeon in her own right. I have only been treated by the father and the daughter, so I know nothing of the other members of the staff--although it should probably be noted that the Tanja Nunnold referred to in the unfortunate personalized review by Ms. Ordogne is a physician's assistant, and not a physician or surgeon.

I have never experienced myself, nor ever observed toward any other patient, any rudeness from any member of the staff in all the years that I have been a patient.

This morning I went for my annual appointment with Dr. Wiliam L. Coker, who did a full-body evaluation, froze several actinic keratoses and took a biopsy of a "suspicious lesion" on the back of my right shoulder, all essentially painlessly and all in less than one hour. [update:] This biopsy detected--and removed--what proved to have been a basal cell carcinoma. I have been followed with some care, as a number of years ago a squamous-cell carcinoma was detected by the senior Dr. Coker, and equally painlessly removed..

I would never advise ANYONE not to consult ANY dermatologist--the failure to do so cost the lives of two friends of mine, who had previously undetected melanomas.

I sincerely regret anything unfortunate that has happened in the life of Ms. Kelly Ordonge, because I do not believe that her experience has been shared by any other patient of Associates in Dermatology at any other time in the past forty-four years. My wife, who is also a long-term patient of Dr. Coker's Associates in Dermatology, finds cryosurgery (the "freezing") more uncomfortable than I do, but otherwise she has had no negative experiences in a like number of years.