Re: [MiniGastricBypass]hooray for my doc

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Sara, congratulations on having a supportive PCP! It is wonderful when

doctors keep up with technology and realize that obesity is not a character

flaw!!! :-)) You go girl!!

fg

At 05:16 PM 05/18/2000 -0500, you wrote:

>Well, I just passed a small hurdle today. I took my daughter in to see our

>family doc, and I told him that I have an appointment with him on Monday, and

>that among other things I wanted to discuss this surgery (the MGB) that I am

>going to have. I gave him a copy of Dr. R's letter for your doctor from

the web

>site (I personalized it by putting my own name in as the patient, like I heard

>someone else say they had done), and I gave him a copy of the manual, too.

>While I was sitting there telling him about the surgery and all the research I

>have done, and the reasons why I have chosen the MGB, he was going through the

>manual. When I was done explaining (which really only took a few minutes) he

>said, " Well, I've read just about all of this now (the manual), and I think

it's

>the best option. " He is apparently a speed reader, and can do several

things at

>once because I know he was also listening to me because he asked very pertinent

>questions about what I was saying. He said that it has been shown that the

only

>