Useful Links
Feel free to make yourself at home in our friendly online patient discussion forum.
For more information about morbid obesity and surgical treatment, please browse the web sites listed below:
- Weight loss surgery information from Ethicon Endo-Surgery
- ObesityHelp.com
- see the Hickory Surgical Clinic page on ObesityHelp.com
- ASMBS web site – American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
- NIH – Obesity page – National Institutes of Health
- CDC – Obesity page – Centers for Disease Control
Local & regional links of interest…
- Hickory Surgical Clinic – our main web site
- Frye Regional Medical Center
- Catawba Valley Medical Center
- North Carolina Medical Board
If you or someone you love is morbidly obese, please call us at (828) 327-9178 to get a full assessment of your condition. Weight loss surgery may be an option for you.