Emory Healthcare Bariatric Center

I first went to Emory of Atlanta's and saw Dr. Davis I was very impressed with him. We sat and talk and he was able to answer all my questions I had. He has the best office staff and appoinment setters around. I guess our only problem we had was my smoking I needed to stop before surgery and during the testings stages he had me do a nicotine test and I failed. I was in the process of quiting and called he said do my best and we would talked more at my appointment. On my appointment day I had quit smoking he still wanted to run a nicotine test when I had my pre-op testing. I know I will pass so I am not worried about that. He will do my surgery as long as I am clean.

My first impression of Dr. Lin was, great! I felt very comfortable with him, I had only heard positive feedback from all who know him. His assistant Dr. Morganthal was excellant as well. I would recommend Dr. Lin to anyone - he is very concerned about his patients, not only as far as sugery is concerned but on a personal level. He was very up front about how important it is that I do my part in the recovery process. Such as walking, water, proper diet and exercise. His practice has a very structured aftercare program, which I am very thankful for. The diatician is wonderful and will call me right away whenever I have any questions or concerns. Dr. Lin's surgical competence and bedside manner are both superb!!!

My first encounter with Dr. Lin was at the informational seminar. He has a sense of humor and is very serious about his work. This combination made me really comfortable with my decision.

My first impression of Dr. Lin was that he wanted to scare the crap out of me. He projected an aura of extreme competence and assurance, but he wanted me to know that just because complications happen infrequently, I wouldn't care about that if I got one. I thought the first visit was actually a little antagonistic because I had some hard questions (like had any of his patients died, and had his malpractice insurance ever been revoked), and he definitely wasn't trying to "sell" me the surgery - which was REALLY GOOD.

So after getting through that initial visit, which wasn't at all touchy feely, but made me feel very secure in my choice of a surgeon, I've actually thought Dr. Lin has a nice, approachable patient manner when I've interacted with him, which has not been that often. I am participating in a study that he is a principal investigator on, and I've had the most interaction with him when I was in the research facility for that.

Also, one of Dr. Lin's associate's performed my endoscopy, but Dr. Lin came by to see me while I was in recovery to ask when I would be by for an office visit to schedule my surgery date. I thought it was very nice that he came by to see me after the EGD.

POST-SURGERY UPDATE: Dr. Lin came by to see me the morning of surgery while I was getting prepped. I was supposed to be the second case of the morning, but I guess the first case didn't work out because I was on the board for 7:30 - first to go. Dr. Lin came back to talk to me, to see if my family was there but to tell me that it didn't matter that all that we needed was "You & Me!" He also came through, possibly for rounds I guess, the first morning after the surgery, with his surgical team, did a very brief examination and told me that they had tested the staple line with a lot of pressure while doing the procedure and that it had held very well. So, I was very happy about that.

Will update after my first post-surgery visit.

I first saw Dr. Lin at the Emory Seminar for Bariatric Surgery. He seemed friendly. The next time I saw him was during my pre-op appointment. He was not so friendly. He was upset. It was a few days prior to my surgery and his office had made a mistake when entering in the code for approval to the insurance company. It was going to have to be open vs. laproscopic. He was not happy at all. He said they would try to get it straightened out, and they did; however, I felt cheated on my chance to take care of my pre-op questions and concerns.

I next saw Dr. Lin in the operating room. He was very kind. He touched my cheek and said everything would be OK.

I saw Dr. Lin one time in the hospital (I was operated on Tuesday afternoon) on Wednesday night. He came by and answered all my questions.

I am now 6 days post-op and those are all the interactions that I have had with Dr. Lin.

Dr. Lin had a great sense of humor and also was very straight-forward with all the facts about my surgery. He's a very smart & talented surgeon. The office staff left a lot to be desired unfortunately. They aren't as "on the ball" as their doctors are. I would recommend to all future patients to come to their first appointment with a list of questions for the surgeon and keep that list updated as you will have more questions as time goes on. My surgeon & his staff placed a large emphasis on after-care and gave me a wonderful, step-by-step plsn to follow after surgery! My surgeon DID discuss the risks of surgery - he hid nothing so I knew exactly what I was doing in making my decision. I would rate Dr. Lin very high - If you want a skilled and caring surgeon, he's the one! In my opinion, although bedside manner is very important, surgical competence is of utmost importance.

9/28/04

Switched to Dr. Lin so that I may have my surgery within this insurance year (2004).I had previously met with Dr.Ramshaw, however he is leaving the practice at the end of the year and is booked until then. Dr. Lin was 2 hours late to my appointment, however this appears to be consistant with a "clinic" type setting. I had an entire page of questions and concerns. He answered all without hesitation. He states that he (or group) had done over 300 surgeries. Appears to be very knowledgeable, and confident that I will have a positive outcome. He states that I am a perfect candidate for this surgery, and he wished morw of his patients has such few co-morbidities. As a pre-op patient...he rates just fine with me.

Met Dr. Lin at the Emory Seminar back in the sring of 2004. I had my consultation with him in August. He is very nice, but there is a girl named Carol in his Crawford Long office who is very inefficient and has caused me some problems in my paperwork process.

I work down the street on Peachtree, a few blocks from his office so that is very convenient.

He stressed aftercare and attending support groups.

He was very upfront about the risks of surgery.

He would not see me without my wife attending.

I am very impressed with Dr. Lin. He is very conservative which suits me fine. He is fairly young but has many hundreds of these surgeries behind him so I am confident that this is our best choice. I just had my second meeting with him and now have a surgery date so there is no going back now. Not that I would consider it anyway. His staff is great and there has never been a long wait in hte office or for appoinments. Dr. Lin is concerned because I am 51 years old and is taking no chances so I have been thru every test possible to make sure I come thru this in good shape. I rate Dr. Lin a 10 and highly recommend him to future Folks considering this procedure.

I liked Dr. Lin alot and wished that I had gone to see him back at the beginning. I feel that he is very confiedent, honest and upfront about what could happen during surgery. The way he put it was not how it would affect me, but how it would affect my family which I never thought about. Dr. Lin is very strict when it comes to loosing weight before surgery and he will tell you why.
He tells you upfront about the risks of surgery and even the percentage of death.
I would rate Dr. Lin on a scale from 1 to 10 a 9 because he not only is thorough with everything to do with the surgery, but he also has a very kind and sweet bedside manner. To me Surgical Competence is the most important but if there were a little room for good bedside manner then I will take it. A doctor who has a good bedside manner can calm a patient who is fearful and assure them that they will be ok which goes along way when it comes to surgery.
Now, Dr. Lin is a new Gastric By-pass surgeon on his own as far as surgery. He has gotten plenty of surgical residency and hands on with both surgery and gastric by pass with teaching doctors with him but now he is on his own and is even teaching others. He was truethful about not having any deaths from gastric by pass and even said that he knows that it will happen. I guess this makes me a little nervous but that is when I trust in God to watch over me and Guide Dr. Lin.