Victoria Patient going through the Richmond Surgeons.

 I  was wondering if anyone has  had their surgery  done by the Richmond surgeons and  been able to do all the preop specialist appointments in Victoria.  I that even a  possibility?

I live in Prince George and did them here.  I don't see why you couldn\t do them there.
Linda

I did all of my tests here in Kamloops.  The only specialists that I had to see down at the coast were Dr. Sidhu and Dr. Zetner.

Thanks for responding. I gave the office a call today and the girl who answered the phone was not very helpful. She said Ihad to go there to do everything including the 7 week nutrition class. She wouldn't even say anything about wait times to me. She said that there is a wait list of over 700 patients waiting for their first appointment and that she wasn't even going to guess. I asked if she thought it would be less than the 5 year wait here but she wouldn't even say yes or no to that. Thanks for responding.

 Hi

I had been on the wait list with Richmond for 10 months and got my first appointments with Dr. Sampath last month.  As we are in the process of moving to the island (Victoria) they have made every attempt to get as many of my appointments done while we are still on the mainland and are trying to book follow up appointments on one day so I can come back for a day of appointments at a time.

The receptionist at the office is not very helpfull and the only thing she would tell me is to look at the website.  Start a food dairy and keep up with it, and get out for exercise every day.  Don't lose hope you will get there, I had given up up ever getting an appointment when I finally got the call.

Good Luck

 Thanks.  I  decided to  stay  here on the  Island and  have it  done.  I  am seeing a surgeon  who is  new to the  island and I have  heard that  his  wait time  is   a  lot  less than the  other bariatric  surgeons  on the  island.  Fingers  crossed it  won't  take too long.  I  would  rather  be  passing the  days  doing  something to  be  working towards the  goal  o  surgery.  Man this is a  crazy  ride!