title: Revisional metabolic/bariatric surgery: a moral obligation.
abstract: Revisional metabolic/bariatric surgery is a moral obligation; for not to perform revisional surgery is a denial of the precepts of our discipline and an abandonment of the underprivileged population who has placed its trust and future in our hands.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street SE, MMC 290, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA, buchw001@umn.edu.
authors.forename: Henry
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Buchwald
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D050110:Bariatric Surgery / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D028681:Moral Obligations; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000601:surgery*; D012086:Reoperation / Q000941:ethics; D014481:United States