The Seven Deadly Sins in a Weight-Loss Surgeon and Why You Should Avoid Them
by Kent C. Sasse, M.D., MPH, FACS
 1. Inexperience.
In the field of bariatric surgery, a surgeon?s lack of experience with procedures can truly be a killer. Complications and patient deaths are dramatically more common in a surgeon?s first several hundred weight-loss operations. Are you considering a nice young surgeon who?s recently started his practice?perhaps someone who has a wonderful bedside manner and who has assured you that nothing can possibly go wrong? Let him practice on someone else. You want to find the doctor who has performed, as the primary surgeon, the specific procedure you are considering 500, even 1,000 time...Read More
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