Naples Daily News

Published – 12/04/2012

Amy Bloom tolerated gallbladder attacks and cut out chocolate, the main culprit for her pain. But after four months, the mother of two toddlers wanted normalcy again.

She had her gallbladder removed in a surgery in which Dr. Mark Liberman made only one incision, through her belly button. The outpatient surgery was done at Physicians Regional Medical Center — Pine Ridge in October.

“Truly, he just told me this is what we do, the single site,” Bloom, 28, said, referring to how she learned of the new technique. “I thought it sounded good to just have one incision instead of four.”