"Dr Shah is a surgeon at the OCC at Tufts- NEMC in Boston MA. rnrnI have only met with her once, and have not had my surgery as yet. That being said....rnrnShe is an amazing woman with a great, patient manner and is wonderful about answering all your questions (no matter how silly, and boy have I had some silly ones). I will say that I feel the program in its entirety wants to steer its patients toward GBP, and that was a little scary at first, because I had a strong desire for the lap-band. However, the staff is patient and very encouraging that this is YOUR decision....I digress....rnrnDr. Shah. studied under Dr. Shikora (the surgical director of the program at NEMC), and I thought she was best for my needs because she is young, but not green. I chose the NEMC program because of the information I could get at their website, and because the director was one of the first in New England to do the Laproscopic RNY.rnrnWhen I asked her why she decided to do these kinds of surgeries she told me that when she started studying minimally invasive surgery (her specialty) she was told that the most difficult kind of surgery to do was the laproscopic RNY. If you cold do that, you could do any laproscopic procedure. She stayed with Dr. Shikora's program because of the effect doing this surgery has on patients. I loved that answer. To me, it means she likes a challenge and isn't afraid of the tough stuff, but that she has a big heart and truly cares about what she does. rnrnI am sure I will have more to say as time goes on and I get closer to surgery. "
