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Submit to MBS Digest

The Digest is read by bariatric and metabolic surgeons, obesity medicine physicians, industry, and policy makers. If you have something worth their attention, send it to us.

Most of what runs in the Digest is sourced and voted on by the Editorial Board. This page is the other door: original work from the people actually doing this job. We publish it under your byline, with your disclosures, after editorial review.

What we're looking for

Commentary or perspective

600–900 words

An argument, not a summary. Where the evidence is being misread, what a guideline gets wrong, what the field is avoiding. Take a position and defend it — the pieces that land are the ones that say something a reader could disagree with.

Practice spotlight

500–700 words

Something your program built that others could copy: a pathway, a follow-up model, a way through a payer problem, a fix for a workflow that was failing patients. Include what it cost you and what didn't work. We are not looking for marketing.

Poll idea

One question, three to five answers

A question you genuinely want the readership's answer to — procedure selection, perioperative practice, how programs are handling GLP-1s. The best ones are questions where you'd be surprised by the result.

Letters and article suggestions

200–400 words, or just a link

Disagree with something we ran? Write in. Spotted a paper the Board should see? Send the DOI. Suggestions go into the weekly candidate pool that the Editorial Board votes on.

What happens after you submit

The Production Editor screens submissions as they arrive and takes anything promising to the Editorial Board. You will hear back at the email you give us either way — including when the answer is no. If we run your piece, you will see the edited version before it publishes. We edit for length and clarity; we do not change your position.

Before you send

It has to be yours and it has to be new. Original work, not published elsewhere. If it has run somewhere else, say so and we'll talk about rights.

No patient-identifying information. No names, no dates of service, no images or details that could identify a patient. De-identify before you paste.

Disclose everything relevant. Consulting, speaking, equity, royalties, research funding, device and pharma relationships. We publish disclosures alongside the piece. This is not disqualifying — concealment is.

Cite what you claim. DOIs or PubMed IDs for anything you assert as evidence.

Plain text is fine. Don't spend time formatting — we handle that. The form takes no file attachments, so paste your text and include links to any figures or images.

Takes about ten minutes if your draft is already written.

Questions, pitches, or something that doesn't fit the form? Email the Production Editor at [email protected].