Question:
Does anyone know of a surgeon in Kansas

   — Jamie C. (posted on August 16, 1999)

August 16, 1999
I am from Perry - between Lawrence and Topeka. I was told there are no bariatric surgeons in the whole state of Kansas and none in the Kansas City area. However, one gal from the KC area anwered one of my questions and said she had the procedure - which one I don't know - done by a surgeon at the Truman Medical Center West. No surgeons appear on the "board certified" list found on the American Association for Bariatric Surgery; however, when I contacted a "board certi- fied" surgeon's office in Colorado Springs, CO, the office person said that particular office has two (or more?) "board certified" surgeons, and the reason they weren't listed on the AABS website - was because it was expensive to list multi-names, so they just listed one. Anyway, I am in the process of investigating "board certified" surgeons in the Midwest. I am on the waiting list at the University of Iowa Medical Center - where one of the pioneers in the surgery is a professor emeritris (sp?) and has trained the other surgeons on staff now. I have talked to a secretary in the office of a Dr. Boyd Terry in Columbia, MO. They are supposed to be sending me a packet of stuff to complete, mail back and then set up a first consult appointment. I have tried to reach a Dr. Gaines in Omaha, but haven't been able to at this point. I understand there is a very good surgeon in Tulsa, OK - a Dr. Grosope (sp?) I don't think I want to go that far. I am very interested in Columbia. MO and Iowa City, IA. I believe both of those hospitals are attached to the major schools of medicine in each state and my PCP says that type of hospital is where he would like me to have mine done. If you need further info, email me at [email protected]
   — Sandy C.

November 4, 2001
you can try the liv-lite at cary country commity hospital junction city ks 785-2384131
   — [Anonymous]