Why?  Because someone doesn't agree with a surgeon's ethics?  For real?

 
I didn't even read this and I'll explain why, Terry Simpson's name is on there. ;o)

Terry Simpson used to be a very skilled surgeon that could do all the surgery types including DS revisions.  But then he realized what a cash cow banding is with all the follow up, maintenance, and re-ops so he started dissing every other single surgery type out there.  After having done them for years as soon as he saw the bank balance for bands all the sudden bands are the only surgery and anything else is mutilation.

His website changes often, he is infamous for manipulating truth, lying, and doing damn near anything to down others while promoting himself.  He actually stole a photo of a lap band placed in Mexico from another website.  He claimed HE removed it and SAVED the patients life.  What he didn't realize is that before he stole that photo other doctors were making the same claims, they stole it first.  He used to have it on his website that if you go to Mexico for surgery THAT is the band you will be getting.  It was a bigoted scare tactic because he's in Arizona and in Arizona we are driving distance from Mexico.

Many of us called him on that and pointed out the fact that if he did indeed remove that band, why didn't he cut the sutures before yanking it out of someone?  He quickly removed the photo from his website and refrained from making that claim again.

His stats are something he cannot defend, his staff are given a script to read when someone calls for information, they are to use that instead of the truth.  He's a band mill but refuses to call it what it is, a mill.  He calls his office a boutique.  Oh please, give me a break!  He's been in trouble with the medical board but in all honesty, I don't know if he was really in the wrong or not. The board feels he was, one of his peers disagrees.

His weight loss stats are totally bogus as well as his comparison chart for band vs. DS.  He claims banded folks don't need calcium supplementation.  Hello?  Every female needs calcium supplementation.  He claims DS can be reversed... what are they going to do?  Dig the old stomach from the trash and put it back in?

He claims it is fine to get preggers with a band... during weight loss.  It's not fine with any surgery, you want your body to have time to recover from massive weight loss before getting preggers and that applies to all surgery types.

While this was true for me he claims you guys don't need anything beyond Tylenol for pain post op but bypass and DS need narcotics.  I don't know, I've seen quite a few people around here taking narcotics for post op pain, according to this doofus you didn't need it.

His death stats are a flat out lie, 1 in 10,000 for bands, 1 in 200 for bypass and DS.  What he's doing is taking the lowest risk group for bands and comparing death stats to the highest risk target populations of bypass and DS.   But this is what he does, he's always done it since he became a band mill.  If his banding procedure is so spiffy, why does he lie and manipulate truth?

You know what else he does not do?  He lists all the complications that can happen with bypass and DS but he failed to mention all the risks of banding and his website is FOR banding.

He's a pig, a liar, and I wouldn't trust him to tell me it's raining outside.  A friend of mine goes to him for maintenance, her ins does not cover WLS so she told him up front she'd be self pay.  He charges her ins co $600 for a fill and calls it reflux.  She doesn't HAVE reflux, that is insurance fraud.  But he gets more money that way vs. her $200 self pay fee.

Again, he manipulates truth so much you just never know when to believe him.  I won't even waste my time reading more of his nonsense.