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Category Archives: Intestinal bypass operation

As America Gets Bigger > Serious social and psychological dimensions > National Eating Disorder > Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC > Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity > National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey NHANES > Diabetes mellitus > Cardiovascular disease > Hypertension and stroke > Certain forms of cancer > Increased risk of premature death > Serious chronic conditions > Reduced overall quality of life

Is surgical treatment for obesity a good and effective treatment for preventing the life-threatening complications and serious degenerative problems associated with pathological obesity? Do drug and medical device companies cash in to unprecedented degrees? Will overweight- and obesity-attributable spending continue to increase and government will continue to finance a sizable portion?

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As America Gets Bigger > Serious social and psychological dimensions > National Eating Disorder > Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC > Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity > National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey NHANES > Diabetes mellitus > Cardiovascular disease > Hypertension and stroke > Certain forms of cancer > Increased risk of premature death > Serious chronic conditions > Reduced overall quality of life

Is surgical treatment for obesity a good and effective treatment for preventing the life-threatening complications and serious degenerative problems associated with pathological obesity? Do drug and medical device companies cash in to unprecedented degrees? Will overweight- and obesity-attributable spending continue to increase and government will continue to finance a sizable portion?

IIP > read on here […]

NOTES treatment of pancreatic lesion > Scar-free surgery > New operation > Doctors insert tools through natural orifices > Keeping skin intact > Intestinal external scars whatsoever > Gallbladders taken out through their mouths > Beth Israel Deaconess > Ram Chuttani > David Rattner > General and gastrointestinal surgery > Massachusetts General Hospital > Brigham and Women’s Hospital > Boston > Amount of additional risk > Patient’s perspective dramatically different > NOTES’s going to happen relatively fast

Does NOTES represent the holy grail in surgery - you go in for surgery and you can go to work the next day? Is it achievable and realistic? Was the success of the procedure at one point “history in the making ” even if the patient is only a pig?

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