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go to foothillsweightloss.com or call 865 984-3413 dr. colquitt does accept medicare!!!!! he is awesome  there program can't be beat  

I agree with the other two postings.  He was my surgeon, he's out of Maryville just south on Knoxville.  He really takes care that you have no complications and is always there for you.   I went thru 11 denials, found out I had leukemia and two months later he said he would do my surgery as long as he received an clearance from my oncologist regarding my blood counts.  She was more then happy to comply.  I will be two yrs old in January.  He's tops in my book.  Never heard any anyone complaining about Dr. Colquitt.  Kathy

Hi Sophia Maria, beautiful name by the way, I have Dr. Melvin too. He did Lapband on me 06/2006. Didn't work for me, and I am now considering RNY, but worried I'll sabotage that too. How has it worked for you? Did you having an easier time with craving and emotional eating after the surgery? (I'm wonderingabout it because the band is only restrictive and I think the RNY might actually have an effect on you digestive chemistry, as well as being restrictive and malabsorptive.

can you give me dr. melvin's phone number! thanks

Sophia,
     I saw that Dr. Melvin was your surgeon. I just have to tell you that I simply adore this man. In Oct. 04 I was pregnant and needed a surgeon to remove my gall bladder and this was being pregnant and also being told 18 years earlier that I would never be able to get pregnant. The lovely man did my surgery, took care of me and my baby. He is the best but I have to have my surgery through Centennial. I would love to see him again.     Marilyn Sanders

Hey there!!!   So glad to hear that your getting Dr. Melvin, he is the best. He was the angel that God sent me so long ago...........I am not sure how many more surgeries that he's done like mine but could you please tell him that Marilyn Sanders and her daughter Ayron said hello......He was a big part in making me who I am today.....a mother..   You lady are in my prayers and I pray for you the greatest outcome.........use the tool and use it well.....and when you are told that you will have to change your romance with food....please believe it.......Godspeed girl......

he did my surgery last year. no longer takes united healthcare community plan but does take blue care medicaid. i either switch or change drs.dont know what to do       UPDATE: Dr. watson does not take the united healthcare community plan tenncare, but he will take bluecare. i switched to it so thank goodness i get to keep my dr

 i have been thinking of a lap band for some time. but with tenncare and medicare i did not think i had a chance of having it done. i live in Paris,TN i guess Nashville is not that far to go to. thanks Darlene for that link. there is a seminar 3-4-08 think i will check it out.

just a little comment to your post. I am a nurse. I worked at hcmc for 10 years and know all the docs pretty well. Dr. Compton is a general surgeon he does not work cardiac. He and Dr. harper are the only ones in paris that can do bariatric surgery.  They have kinda stopped these surgeries because of insurance issues. They didnt that thier patients had to wait for 6 months before they could have surgery because of insurance issues, plus all of the classes and things you had to do to even get to the point of surgery. Dr. Harper is a little more trained in the bariatric surgery dept. This was all he did before comming to Paris. I didnt realize that until I had asked him about the bariatric procedure. He now is doing alot of general surgeries. It was pretty cool Dr. Compton went I dont remember where to get his training for bariatric procedures and then turned around and came back to paris and offered certain employees the lap band surgery free. I tried really hard to get on that train but he was looking for a certain body type. He told me people that are more pear shaped have greater sucess with the lap band. So I guess Im not pear shaped lol. Dr Compton has repaired a hernia for me, so i got to see the 2 sides of the doc. When you are his patient he is the most awesome man in the universe because he really does care. I love the man to death. I even have him as a friend on my facebook lol. Omg is this man smart! I love to listen to him, cause he really taught me alot. but that being said he is rough on the nurses alot of the time. Lord we would step on egg shells around him but thats only because he want the best for his patients. He wants the nurses to go beyond the norm for his pts. just show he cares. I do know from a little birdie that he and Dr. Harper still do a few bariatric procedures here and there. I think if you were really deperate and be a life or death situation that they would do the bariatric procedure. You might be thinking about Dr. Lundberg hes not a cardiac specialist but a vascular specialist. He also is the bomb, love and miss me some Dr. Lundberg. I always suggest these three docs when anyone needs surgery.

Dr Weaver in Memphis takes both . Lee Lee