My father, Alberic Fiennes, who has died aged 75, was a pioneering surgeon. He championed the idea that severe obesity – far from being a “moral failing” – is a physiological and psychological disease requiring medical intervention.
From 1990 to 2007 he was a consultant surgeon and lecturer at St George’s hospital and medical school in Tooting, south London. He was committed to meticulous, patient-centric care and surgical innovation. An early convert to minimally invasive procedures that could reduce recovery time and pain, he was the first person in the UK to offer totally extraperitoneal (TEP) hernia repair as a day surgery.
