Calendar of Events, Cartoon Corner
26
Bariatric Times • February 2017
Walter Pories's
CARTOON CORNER
Original Cartoons by
WALTER J. PORIES, MD, FACS
P
rofessor of Surgery, Biochemistry and Kinesiology,
East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
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