What patients ask us most.

Call or send a WhatsApp message. You do not need a referral.

Any CT, MRI, ultrasound or endoscopy films and reports you already have, recent blood tests, and a list of your medicines. If you have had surgery before, the operation note matters especially — knowing what was actually done changes the next decision.

Of course. We regularly see patients who arrive with a diagnosis and a proposed plan from elsewhere. Seeking a second opinion is your right and, as long as it does not delay treatment, it works in your favour.

Often not. Not every hernia, gallstone or haemorrhoid needs surgery; many are managed with monitoring and medical treatment. If an operation isn't needed, we will say so plainly.

Instead of opening the abdominal wall with one long incision, the surgeon works through ports a few millimetres across, using a camera and fine instruments, and sees the inside of the abdomen on a magnified image.

For patients this usually means less pain afterwards, a shorter hospital stay, smaller scars and an earlier return to ordinary life.

No. The position and size of a tumour, adhesions from previous surgery, severe obesity and a patient's general condition can all change the decision.

It is also normal to begin laparoscopically and convert to open surgery if the situation calls for it. That is not a complication or a failure — it is choosing what is safe at that moment.

The first thing to say is that obesity is a disease. It lays the ground for diabetes and hypertension, for heart disease, and for several cancers. Treating it as a purely cosmetic concern is a mistake.

So is treating middle-aged weight gain as simply what happens with age — and so is telling a patient "just eat less, it's that simple". There is a psychological component, but it is far less dominant than people assume; eating habits, lifestyle, genetic predisposition and how fat is distributed in the body all play a part. The right approach is to assess the whole person before deciding on treatment.

Body mass index guides the surgical decision: weight divided by the square of height. Surgery is generally considered for patients with a BMI of 40 or above, and for those above 35 who have not been able to lose weight under supervised medical nutrition, exercise and drug treatment.

No. Surgery is the tool that makes weight loss possible; what determines the lasting result is what happens afterwards — diet, regular exercise and follow-up. Bariatric surgery is better understood as a long course of treatment than as a single operation.

Sleeve gastrectomy, gastric bypass, the gastric balloon and gastric botox suit different patients for different reasons. Your BMI, any accompanying conditions (particularly type 2 diabetes and reflux), your eating patterns and what you have already tried all shape the decision — and it can only be made after examination and investigation.

For many digestive-system cancers, yes. What matters is that the keyhole approach concedes nothing on oncological principle: removing the tumour with adequate margins and clearing the surrounding lymph nodes must be done the same way regardless of technique.

In cancer care the plan is not one doctor's decision. It is made together with medical and radiation oncology, and for some patients chemotherapy or radiotherapy before surgery is the better sequence. Surgery is only one part of most cancer treatment.

Oncological follow-up matters as much as the operation itself, and it runs for years — periodic examination, blood tests and imaging. The schedule is set according to the type and stage of the disease.