My Gastroenterologist informs me that she does not

I first saw my Gastroenterologist in January. I told her up front why I was seeing her (a prerequisite from my surgeon because he felt I had reflux). I had the endoscopy and determined I had Esophogitis and a hiatal hernia. She said I was not a good candidate for surgery at that time and would reevaluate after medication and a follow up endoscopy. Well, I had the follow up last week and the Esophogitis is all cleared up and hiatal hernia is better. So I have been calling her office to get her to clear me for surgery and she hasn't been calling me back. Well, her receptionist or whoever answers the phone this morning told me that she will not clear me for the surgery (lap RNY) because the doctor does not believe in WLS. I was furious to say the least and asked this girl why the doctor didn't tell me this in the beginning when I told her why I was seeing her. She said she didn't know and that the doctor was going to tell my surgeon just that the hernia had gotten better but that she would not say it was ok to do the surgery and he had to make the decision. Well, my surgeon's assistant said she didn't know if that would be good enough, so now I may have to go see a whole new Gastroenterologist to get approval, if my surgeon would even accept it after whatever the original doctor sends to him today. Has anyone else dealt with something similar to this? Please, any advice or input would be greatly appreciated.

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