North Mississippi Surgery Clinic opened June 1 in West Point, according to Daily-Times Leader.
Here are four takeaways:
1. Hiroji Noguchi, MD, a general surgeon, is leading the clinic.
2. His past leadership experience includes serving as a medical director at a Honolulu-based ASC and chair of surgery at Kailua, Hawaii-based Castle Medical Center.
3. The clinic's opening coincides with Dr. Noguchi's triumph over cholangiocarcinoma, a type of bile duct cancer. Providers told Dr. Noguchi in August 2014 he had between three months and six months to live. He defied the odds and underwent a liver transplant in June 2016 and is on the road to recovery.
4. Dr. Noguchi told Daily-Times Leade, "I learned a lot, being the patient. The patient usually does whatever the doctor says because you believe it's what you have to do. I have learned a lot more about being on the patient side."