General Surgeons in the UAE

Ask whether your operation can be done laparoscopically or robotically rather than open, and how many the surgeon performs each year — volume correlates with outcome across essentially all surgical fields. Establish what the non-surgical alternatives are and what happens if you wait. For bariatric surgery specifically, ask what the pre-operative assessment involves and what long-term nutritional follow-up is provided, since that aftercare largely determines the result.