If you have moved far from your original surgeon or there is some other reason it's not reasonable for that surgeon to participate in your care, we may be able to help. We will need to have an operative report from your first operation, and we will depend on you to obtain that from the surgeon's office. We will also want an Upper GI X-ray or Upper scope that demonstrates there's a correctable surgical problem. Last, we will also require a letter of support from your primary physician. Check the financial information page.
Most patients lose very small amounts of blood.
Bad outcomes do happen, but in appropriately selected patients the risk of surgery is less than the risk of continuing with morbid obesity. Physicians are like other people in that they do not trust what they do not know. Bariatric surgery is only now becoming widely accepted and many physicians do not have much exposure to it. This is the only situation in which it is probably appropriate to select another doctor. The sad fact is that there is no therapy other than surgery that has demonstrated significant weight loss in morbidly obese patients for more than two years.