Time to toss the Tums

UF Health Jacksonville patient finds relief after suffering with acid reflux for more than 20 years.

By: Wesley Taff
“I could hardly eat any regular food, even something as simple as pancakes,” Pompey said. “I was basically living on smoothies, because eating anything else would increase the GERD symptoms.”
alt Ruchir Puri, MD is a UF Health Jacksonville surgeon, specializing in minimally invasive foregut surgery.
alt Pompey suffered from GERD for more than 20 years before finding a solution at UF Health.