ASMBS accredited fellowship trained bariatric and foregut surgeon, I have extensive training in robotic surgery, MIS surgery and advanced endoscopy with interests in treating obesity and metabolic disorders and their associated comorbidities, GERD, achalasia, hiatal hernias, gallbladder disease, complex hernia repair and other diseases of the foregut. Specialties: Bariatric and Foregut Robotic Surgery, Endoscopy, General Surgery, Trauma, Wound Care, Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, Alternative MedicineMy appreciation for all things medicine is said best by Tinsley Harrison, written in the first edition preface of the text titled "Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine published in 1950":"No greater opportunity, responsibility, or obligation can fall to the lot of a human being than to become a physician. In the care of the suffering, [the physician] needs technical skill, scientific knowledge, and human understanding. . . . Tact, sympathy, and understanding are expected of the physician, for the patient is no mere collection of symptoms, signs, disordered functions, damaged organs, and disturbed emotions. [The patient] is human, fearful, and hopeful, seeking relief, help, and reassurance."