Hien Tan Nguyen, MD, assistant professor of surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, director, Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Hernia Center and assistant professor of biomedical engineering and associate medical director, Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design, all in Baltimore.
Hernias can be serious– or not. Here's how to figure that out, and what you should do about hiatal, inguinal and umbilical hernias.