If you get bad vitamin advice from your surgeon or nutritionist....
Please go to the ASMBS website and print out the list of their recommended supplementation schedule. You can find it at www.asbs.org/Newsite07/resources/bgs_final.pdf . Then, bring it to your next appointment.
You will be doing yourself and perhaps hundreds of future pre-ops a favor by educating your healthcare team. They are, after all, only human and may simply not know any better. But as Maya Angelou once said "when we know better, we do better".
You will be doing yourself and perhaps hundreds of future pre-ops a favor by educating your healthcare team. They are, after all, only human and may simply not know any better. But as Maya Angelou once said "when we know better, we do better".
Marilyn (now in NM)
RNY 10/2/01
262(HW)/150-155(GW)/159(CW)
(updated March 2012)