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Laurie Essig, Middlebury College

GREENWICH — Amy Anderson knows how hard society can be on people with weight issues.

“The discrimination against heavy people is alarming — and how rudely heavy people are treated,” said Anderson, a classically trained musician who works in the education field.

For many, lifestyle changes are not enough to get the weight off and keep it off. The Center for Surgical Weight Control at Cabell Huntington Hospital offers effective, proven surgical solutions for weight loss and improved quality of life.

The prospect of having surgery on the brain or spine can be frightening, but Tri-State residents can rest assured knowing Cabell Huntington Hospital (CHH) provides the latest in minimally invasive surgical procedures.

Shortly after launching a new cardiac surgery program, Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital has expanded cancer treatment services, renovated its facilities and augmented its team of specialists.

FLORENCE, S.C. – Carolinas Centers for Sight, P.C., offers a surgical procedure to help patients restore their near vision and reduce the need for reading glasses.

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: How long are the effects of liposuction supposed to last, and how does it affect the skin around it? Is it true that if you get liposuction in one area of the body, the fat will eventually move to another area?

Should you fast or not, (have no food or drink) before a surgical procedure with general anesthesia? A person who receives the Wall Street Journal clips and saves certain articles relevant to medicine for me to peruse. One from the summer harvest of papers came from 7/13/2017 and was titled “Don’t Hold Fast To This Surgical Rule”. It discussed fasting (pun in the headline perhaps?) before surgery. The writer was Hakim Bouzamondo, identified as a physician and divisional vice president of global research and development for Abbott’s Labs nutrition division.

In his 30 years as a cardiologist, Dr. Roy Robertson, president of the Parkview Heart Institute, has strong feelings on the several trans:catheter aortic valve replacement procedures he has performed.

According to a survey published in late 2016 by the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the proliferation of nonsurgical cosmetic procedures has increased demand for nonsurgical procedures for men by 44 percent since 2011.