Weight Loss Surgery from a Surgeon's Perspective

Here is a nice article from the Washington Universtity in St. Louis regarding a doctor and his Weight Loss Surgery experience. Read if in full, it is interesting the interaction between doctor and patient.

Patients come to Christopher Eagon, M.D., having suffered a lifetime's worth of indignities. Severely obese, they are forced to pay for two seats on airplanes, shop for clothes in special stores and endure stares, derisive comments and other reminders that they don't fit in.

Eagon specializes in weight-loss surgery, also known as bariatric surgery. The technique he uses most frequently reduces the stomach from the size of a football to that of an egg and shortens the length of the intestine. This so-called gastric bypass surgery helps patients lose weight by decreasing the number of calories they can consume and absorb. Eagon has performed more than 900 such surgeries since 1999, giving many patients a new lease on life. (Read Here)