Health and Lifestyle Blog

What made you want to be a surgeon?  What got me interested in medicine in the first place was anatomy, so when I started medical school, the most direct way to deal with anatomy was surgery. That was the initial driver towards surgery as a practice.  General and...

As a bariatric surgeon, I am often asked by patients who are considering weight loss surgery how much weight they can expect to lose. And it's a difficult question to answer, as each individual will have many different factors that will affect their total weight loss;...

Following bariatric surgery, you will have been asked to adhere to a new diet provided by our Dietitian Lisa here at UGIRS as part of our Bariatric Programme, which will include advice about the importance of keeping hydrated and how water is preferable to fizzy or...