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How to Find a Gastric Bypass Surgeon
A gastric bypass procedure can have enormous benefits on your future health for decades to come, so it is no surprise that potential patients approach...

Introduction to Gastric Bypass Surgery
Gastric bypasses are one of the most popular types of weight loss surgeries performed. Through a relatively simple procedure that involves stapling...

What to Expect on the Day of Surgery
Surgery can be somewhat frightening even for the bravest among us. You are only partially clothed, everywhere you look people are dressed in masks...

A Primer on Robotic Surgery
When people first hear the term robotic surgery it is hard not to imagine a robot plucked straight from a science fiction movie standing over a patient...

The Benefits and Risks Duodenal Switch
A duodenal switch is one of the more aggressive bariatric surgeries performed today. A duodenal switch is often performed...

Understanding the Risks of Surgery
Many modern surgical procedures are both routine and safe but, it is important to remember that there is a certain amount of risk in every surgical...

Calculating the Risks and Benefits of Surgery
Before every surgical procedure, surgeons will determine a risk/benefit ratio either informally or as part of a patient workup. If the ratio is too...

Recovering from Surgery – What to Expect
Surgery recovery is the sequence of steps that occurs from the point at which you awake from anesthesia to the point at which you are fully healed...

Surgery Recovery Period
The period after your surgery, called the recovery period, is a very important part of your overall surgical experience. The ease with which you...