The Seven Deadly Sins in a Weight-Loss Surgeon and Why You Should Avoid Them
by Kent C. Sasse, M.D., MPH, FACS
1. Inexperience.
In the field of bariatric surgery, a surgeon’s lack of
experience with procedures can truly be a killer. Complications
and patient deaths are dramatically more common in a surgeon’s
first several hundred weight-loss operations. Are you considering
a nice young surgeon who’s recently started his practice—perhaps
someone who has a wonderful bedside manner and who has assured
you that nothing can possibly go wrong? Let him practice on
someone else. You want to find the doctor who has performed,
as the primary surgeon, the specific procedure you are considering
500, even 1,000 time...Read
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