General Practitioners

• Osteoporosis
• Medical Weight Loss
  If you are very obese and have trouble losing weight through dieting and exercise, your doctor may consider you as a candidate for gastric bypass surgery to achieve weight loss. Candidates usually are 100 pounds or more over their ideal weight.
• Emergency Care
  Dr. Daly is affiliated with Northside Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, and has been appointed to the emergency department and parenteral nutrition committees at West Paces Medical Center. He served as chief of the department of surgery (1993-1999) and was a member of the board of trustees (1996-1999) at West Paces Ferry Hospital. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, the American Medical Association, the Pennsylvania and Allegheny County Medical Societies, the Medical Association of Georgia, and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
• Colonoscopy
  Colonoscopy can be used to view the entire colon and remove small polyps. Polyps can also be removed with surgery through the anus, or, in rare cases, through abdominal surgery.
• Constipation
• Electrocardiogram

Internists

• Bladder Cancer
  Patients with gallstones are also more likely to develop gallbladder cancer due to the increased exposure of gallbladder cells to toxins. However, this complication is very rare, and most gallstone patients never develop gallbladder cancer.
• Kidney Stones
  If diagnosed with hyperparathyroidism, your doctor may run a bone density test to assess your risk of osteoporosis, and/or urine and imaging tests to monitor your kidney function and check for kidney stones. These tests allow your doctor to see how seriously your health is threatened by the disease, and provide appropriate treatment. If you have no serious complications, your doctor may recommend close monitoring of the condition without treatment. If symptoms develop, treatment can include hormone replacement therapy, medications, and surgery. Surgical treatment involves the removal of one or more parathyroid glands through a small incision in the neck, and can usually be performed as an outpatient surgery.
• Colon Cancer
  Cancer on the colon wall is comprised of abnormal cells that are growing at an uncontrolled rate. Generally the size of a mushroom or larger, colon cancer can continue to grow and spread to other parts of the body, such as the lymph glands, liver, and lungs. Cancers should be removed through surgery as soon as possible to prevent them from spreading, or metastasizing.
• Endoscopy
  When gallstones cause pancreatitis the pancreatitis may go away once the gallstone passes further into the lower intestine. But when a gallstone blocks the pancreatic duct where the pancreas drains into the lower intestine, the gallstone may need to be removed with a minor surgical procedure using endoscopy. The endoscope, a lighted tube with a TV camera on the end, is inserted into the patient's mouth and esophagus. The endoscope goes through the stomach and small intestine. When the surgeon sees the pancreatic duct, he uses a surgical instrument on the endoscope to remove the gallstone.

Psychiatrists

• Mental Health
  A mental health check to make sure you are mentally fit to live with major changes in your lifestyle after lap band surgery

Endocrinologist

• Thyroid

Radiologist

• Ultrasound
  There are a number of tests your doctor may conduct to help determine your risk of breast cancer, including a discussion of your medical and family histories, a physical examination, a mammogram, an ultrasound (which allows your doctor to distinguish between solid lumps and fluid-filled cysts), and a biopsy.
• MRI
• X-Rays
• Chemotherapy
  Cancer is generally treated by destroying, controlling, or removing a malignant tumor and any surrounding tissue that may contain precancerous cells. The three most common types of cancer treatment are radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and oncologic surgery.
• Radiation Therapy
  Radiation therapy following a lumpectomy to eradicate any remaining cancer cells in your breast or lymph nodes. Radiation therapy usually takes place three to four weeks after surgery. The drawbacks of radiation therapy include the amount of time involved (a five-to-six week commitment), and potential side effects such as tightness or numbness under the arm, fatigue, and loss of sensation in the breast. Other forms of therapy your doctor may recommend include

Surgeons

• General Surgery
  Dr. John Daly was born in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1959. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at Washington and Lee University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Phi, and graduated cum laude in 1981. In 1984, he graduated from Ohio State University as a Master's candidate in biochemistry. Dr. Daly went on to attend West Virginia University's School of Medicine where he received his Doctor of Medicine in 1988 and completed his internship in general surgery. He served as resident general surgeon at Western Pennsylvania Hospital in pittsburgh from 1989 to 1993.
• Minimally Invasive Surgery
  Most patients are treated with minimally-invasive surgery and can go home the same day or the following day.
• Mohs Surgery
  Skin cancer removal is an outpatient surgery that generally takes no more than a few hours; however, because certain types of surgery require tissue analysis (Mohs surgery, for example), we recommend that you set aside an entire day for the surgery.
• Reconstructive Surgery
  Oncology is an area of medicine that diagnoses, studies, and treats cancer. A surgical oncologist is a surgeon who specializes in biopsies and tumor removal. Many of the general surgeons at North Atlanta Surgical Associates are specially trained in oncologic surgery. We guide our patients through every step of cancer treatment, from diagnosis to recovery and reconstructive surgery.

Plastic Surgeons

• Breast Reconstruction
  Radical mastectomy, which was once the standard treatment for women with breast cancer. Whereas a radical mastectomy removes the breast, chest muscle, lymph nodes, and some additional fat and skin, a modified radical mastectomy does not remove the chest muscle. This not only preserves your arm strength and shortens your recovery time, it also allows you the choice of undergoing breast reconstruction.
• Breast Surgery
  A general surgeon is specially trained to perform surgery on all of the abdominal organs of the body, including the stomach, intestines (colon), rectum, esophagus, liver, pancreas, gall bladder, thyroid, parathyroid gland, adrenal gland. They perform surgery to cure conditions like hernia, perform breast surgery and treat diseases of the skin including skin cancer. Many of our surgeons are specially trained in cancer surgery, also known as onocologic surgery.
• Laparoscopic Surgery
  Our general surgeons use minimally-invasive laparoscopic surgery when possible, so you heal faster and get back to your normal lifestyle.
• Bariatric Surgery
  Dr. Daly is the owner of the Georgia Surgery Clinic, P.C., a prestigious general surgery practice established in the 1950s. Georgia Surgery was one of the pioneer clinics in the area of breast conservation for patients undergoing breast cancer treatment, and currently specializes in advanced laparoscopic surgery, breast care, endocrine surgery, and bariatric surgery.

Dermatologists

• Skin Cancer
  Melanin is a skin pigment, which is responsible for skin and hair color. Changes in cells that are known as melanocytes cause melanoma. These melanocytes usually begin as a change in an area such as a mole.
• Cyst
• Lesions
  There are several methods of treatment for skin cancer and pre-cancerous lesions, including laser removal, freezing with liquid nitrogen, surgical excision, and radiation and chemotherapy. Excision involves surgically removing the cancerous growth and surrounding areas of healthy skin, known as the margins. The size of the margins will vary depending on what stage the cancer has reached. With more advanced cancers, the area of healthy skin removed will be larger.