Selective info by our favourite DSer
Grow a pair of balls? Really? Ok, so here is where the juvenile insults begin. Thanks for making what's supposed to be a supportive environment, a hostile one. Good luck on your quest to convert people to believe exactly what you do. You are young and will eventually realize it's a waste of time, which is the exact reason I'm giving up trying to reason with you, because I know better.
What I do care about is that patients can make an informed decision. That entails being educated on what medical research says about the successful surgical treatment of morbid obesity.
We all care about that. You're preaching to the choir, honey. Now I suggest you spend your time and energy on persuading all bariatric surgeons to perform DS and offer it as a WLS to all their patients.
A surgeon has profit motive, which means ill advise most of the time.
I have two responses to this outlandish statement.
1) While I'm sure some doctors give ill advice from time to time (for a variety of reasons), I think you'll have a hard time proving that every bariatric surgeon in the United States is involved in a conspiracy to promote ignorance about DS in order to increase their profits. That just doesn't make sense. The band is one of the lowest-cost bariatric procedures available, and out of the surgeon's "gross profit", he/she must subtract $4-5,000 for the band itself. It seems to me that the more "profitable? procedures are RNY and DS, which involve more time in the OR.
2) Is there something intrinsically wrong with a professional anything wanting to profit from the practice of his/her profession? If I went to college, then medical school, did my internship(s) and residenc(ies), paid for malpractice insurance and to set up an office or buy my way into an existing practice, I sure would want to make some money off that. Doctors are scientists who presumably love their work and want to help other people, but if they also want to house and feed themselves and their families, I'm not going to criticize them for that and claim it makes them less valuable to their patients. I guess I'll leave that to paranoid wing-nuts like you.
Jean
We all care about that. You're preaching to the choir, honey. Now I suggest you spend your time and energy on persuading all bariatric surgeons to perform DS and offer it as a WLS to all their patients.
A surgeon has profit motive, which means ill advise most of the time.
I have two responses to this outlandish statement.
1) While I'm sure some doctors give ill advice from time to time (for a variety of reasons), I think you'll have a hard time proving that every bariatric surgeon in the United States is involved in a conspiracy to promote ignorance about DS in order to increase their profits. That just doesn't make sense. The band is one of the lowest-cost bariatric procedures available, and out of the surgeon's "gross profit", he/she must subtract $4-5,000 for the band itself. It seems to me that the more "profitable? procedures are RNY and DS, which involve more time in the OR.
2) Is there something intrinsically wrong with a professional anything wanting to profit from the practice of his/her profession? If I went to college, then medical school, did my internship(s) and residenc(ies), paid for malpractice insurance and to set up an office or buy my way into an existing practice, I sure would want to make some money off that. Doctors are scientists who presumably love their work and want to help other people, but if they also want to house and feed themselves and their families, I'm not going to criticize them for that and claim it makes them less valuable to their patients. I guess I'll leave that to paranoid wing-nuts like you.
Jean
Jean McMillan c.2009-2013 - Always a bandster at heart
author of Bandwagon (TM), Strategies for Success with the Adjustable Gastric Band & Bandwagon Cookery. Bandwagon for Kindle now available on Amazon. Read my blog at: jean-onthebandwagon.blogspot.com
Hi, Bella. Your post came through as a reply direct to my post. Am I the one that is missing something??
Confused! Kate
Highest 290, Banded - 248 Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.
Happily banded since May 2006. Regain of 28lbs 2013-14. ALL GONE!
But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,
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