URGENT: TO ALL compliant, successful DS'er postops
Those of you who have had success with your Duodenal Switch weight loss surgery, listen up:
(...because the Nation's DS Surgeons NEED YOUR HELP!)
Maria Harrison of UCLA Bariatric Dept (formerIy the USC Bariatric Coordinator many of us knew when we got our DS) wrote me: She just came back from the ASMBS ( American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery) 29th Annual Meeting, held in San Diego June 17-22, 2012 and she spoke with former USC Bariatric surgeon, Dr. Gary Anthone (who now practices in Nebraska). Maria writes: What's happened is THIS:
Dr. Namir Katkhouda, a Laparoscopic surgeon at USC who's a driving and deliberate advocate of the RNY gastric bypass (& lap band) weight loss procedures wrote and submitted for publication a scientific paper declaring that the DS procedure is "Bad" and that more than half of the patients had to be revised or suffered from malnutrition. (He also put Dr. Peter Crookes name on the paper -but, I don't know if that was WITH his permission or not.) Dr. Katkhouda has never performed the DS procedure. (I remember being at a USC Seminar after my DS, about 8 years ago, witnessing and being appalled when he actually told a prospective attendee NOT to get the DS or she'd die.) At this year's ASMBS meeting all the DS surgeons were very upset and are trying to stop his report from being published. The recommendation was that the DS patients should write a letter validating their DS is having good result ~~ and if they are being compliant.
I wrote back to Maria asking: Is there a paper or "form" of what information they would like; is there any "official request" or "questionnaire" they have created to get out to ALL DS'ers around the COUNTRY to get THEIR opinion and certification of how well it HAS worked for them? Or is there a website to go to as to what exactly the ASMBS DS surgeons/advocates need, in regards to patient's DS outcome/success?
Maria wrote back: The DS surgeons will be working hard to make him wrong, but Dr. Gary Anthone will need telephone numbers and emails to collect testimonies. Once they set up the website for reporting, it will be available. She writes: In the meantime, I need DS patient "contact information" to provide to Dr. Anthone. Please, email to me: [email protected] with the words in the subject: "DS patient" your name, contact phone number and email address so you can be sent the information to submit your testimonial.
So many had fought for the DS - it's changed and saved their lives; let's not let Dr. Katkhouda take the DS away from helping future obese patients!
Sharon Harvey, [email protected]
DS on 12-5-2003 with Dr. Peter Crookes, USC
(I have maintained a 200 lb. loss)
Here is this year's ASMBS 2012 Annual Meeting website: http://2012.asmbs.org/
(...because the Nation's DS Surgeons NEED YOUR HELP!)
Maria Harrison of UCLA Bariatric Dept (formerIy the USC Bariatric Coordinator many of us knew when we got our DS) wrote me: She just came back from the ASMBS ( American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery) 29th Annual Meeting, held in San Diego June 17-22, 2012 and she spoke with former USC Bariatric surgeon, Dr. Gary Anthone (who now practices in Nebraska). Maria writes: What's happened is THIS:
Dr. Namir Katkhouda, a Laparoscopic surgeon at USC who's a driving and deliberate advocate of the RNY gastric bypass (& lap band) weight loss procedures wrote and submitted for publication a scientific paper declaring that the DS procedure is "Bad" and that more than half of the patients had to be revised or suffered from malnutrition. (He also put Dr. Peter Crookes name on the paper -but, I don't know if that was WITH his permission or not.) Dr. Katkhouda has never performed the DS procedure. (I remember being at a USC Seminar after my DS, about 8 years ago, witnessing and being appalled when he actually told a prospective attendee NOT to get the DS or she'd die.) At this year's ASMBS meeting all the DS surgeons were very upset and are trying to stop his report from being published. The recommendation was that the DS patients should write a letter validating their DS is having good result ~~ and if they are being compliant.
I wrote back to Maria asking: Is there a paper or "form" of what information they would like; is there any "official request" or "questionnaire" they have created to get out to ALL DS'ers around the COUNTRY to get THEIR opinion and certification of how well it HAS worked for them? Or is there a website to go to as to what exactly the ASMBS DS surgeons/advocates need, in regards to patient's DS outcome/success?
Maria wrote back: The DS surgeons will be working hard to make him wrong, but Dr. Gary Anthone will need telephone numbers and emails to collect testimonies. Once they set up the website for reporting, it will be available. She writes: In the meantime, I need DS patient "contact information" to provide to Dr. Anthone. Please, email to me: [email protected] with the words in the subject: "DS patient" your name, contact phone number and email address so you can be sent the information to submit your testimonial.
So many had fought for the DS - it's changed and saved their lives; let's not let Dr. Katkhouda take the DS away from helping future obese patients!
Sharon Harvey, [email protected]
DS on 12-5-2003 with Dr. Peter Crookes, USC
(I have maintained a 200 lb. loss)
Here is this year's ASMBS 2012 Annual Meeting website: http://2012.asmbs.org/
Sent. Thanks.
--gina
--gina
5'1" -- HW 195/SW 187/GW 115 July 08/CW 121 Dec 2012
******GOAL*******
Starting BMI between 35 and 40ish?
Join us on the Lightweights Board!
DS on Aug 9, 2007 with Dr. Hazem Elariny
Altho only 17 months out, sent mine too. LOL Liz
Duodenal Switch (Lap) 01-24-11 | Surgeon: Stephen Boyce | High weight: 250 in 2002 | Surgery weight: 203 | Lowest weight: 121 | Current weight: 135 | Goal weight: 135
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