David Sarwer Psychologist PHD

I saw Dr. Sarwer as part of my clearance for bariatric surgery. I found him to be honest, supportive, thoughtful and helpful. He gave me some extremely practical suggestions for coping with the aftermath of surgery, and clearly worked with me as a unique individual. I found him quite respectful and very honest. He has a difficult job to do in evaluating people's emotional readiness for surgery, and I felt he took this responsibility quite seriously.

I enjoyed my session with him very much and would highly recommend him to anyone in the process. Excellent clinician!!

I grade him the worst of the worst in every area. He degraded me in many ways such as: After I told him I was abused by my father and the men at my place of employment were getting raises that I should have been getting... He said "did anyone ever tell you that you have a problem dealing with men" This all happened in the first 10 minutes of being with him. I walked out of the room and went to a different hospital because I don't want surgery from anyone who would deal with someone in this field that is this shallow and mindless.

Dr. Sawer was very reassuring when I saw him for my psych consult. We went over the surveys that were mandatory and he was interested in various aspects of my weighty problem with my weight and took an active interest in helping me understand about the WLS.

Dr. Sarwer was my therapist 6 years ago and we spoke about WLS then, but I was not ready. I AM ready now, and sought him out to discuss where I am now. If you are in Philly, this is the guy to see. Extremely empathetic and extremely supportive.

Very unprofessional...made a "fat" joke during my session with him.

My psych consult was with Dr. Sarwer. He was very easy to talk to and explained exactly what he was going to put in his letter to Dr. Raper (my surgeon). He and I shared similar philosophies on the appropriateness of the "last supper syndrome".