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Surgeon Testimonial Garth Davis M.D. First he quite good looking and young, learned he is age 37. He sounded knowledgeable about obesity and gastric bypass and also sounded genuinely concerned and compassionate about the plight of the obest. He truly believes the emotional health of the surgical candidate is extremely important and specifically understands emotional eating and food as a best friend. He seems to have a busy practice, lots of activity both times I went to his office. His staff strikes me as disorganized and the faces have changed from my visit in May versus my visit per op in November. The office manager trys to keep everything moving I can tell and she is very knowledgeable about insurance issuesl My impression of Dr. Garth has only gotten better now that I am post op. He obviously is good at what he does, even used a pain free material for the drain and I did not feel a thing when he pulled it. He emphasizes aftercare from the beginning information seminar. He even attends the support groups at Methodist on the last Wednesday of each month. I will learn more about aftercare when I seem him this coming Thursday but sometime soon I meet with he, the nutritionist, the psych, for an hour. These folks always go to support meetings. Their statistics show those who participate in support groups and take their vitamins and follow pouch rules lose and maintain the best. He discussed the risks at our first meeting and at his seminar and they are covered in detail in the preop consent form. His and his father's stats show low complication rates, and no deaths. I think he is excellent overall, both in surgical competence and bedside manner. I tend to be critical of surgeons in particular from my nursing background but he is truly unique. Member Interests
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Surgery date 11/28/06
In 27 days I will be having surgery. Whoopee!! I meet with the surgeon 11/20 and have pre op tests that day. My last NUT mtg will be 11/10 and I start my liquid only diet 11/13 probably using Optifast. It won't be easy but I can do it. After all, I just completed my six months of NUT supervised diet and lost 30#. I am pleased that I got below 300#, down to 290 now. My surgery will be in a brand new hospital here in Houston, called University General, with a big focus on Bariatric surgery. I expect to treated very well as they should be working hard to make a good impression. I asked my brother and sister in law to come in town from Memphis to be here with me. I may not need anything, or I may need any number of things so felt better asking for them to come. I know I can depend on them to do whatever. I was going to depend on two best friends but they have busy lives and could not take time off so went with my remaining family. The OFF forum here has been the most supportive group of people and have helped me get to the comfort level I am now. I am still going to Curves 3x/week or more and was swimming laps 3x/week till a week ago when a cool front came through. I cannot undo the damage of not taking care of myself for all these years but I have certainly been focused for six months on getting my body in as good shape as possible for surgery. 0 Comment(s)
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