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Dr. William (Joe) Messick was a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the UNC School of Medicine. After completing his residency in General Surgery at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York, he returned to private practice in Banner Elk, North Carolina for five years. In 1990, he returned to … Read morehttps://www.med.unc.edu/surgery/wp-content/uploads/sites/854/2018/09/Messick.jpg