Guest guest Posted June 17, 2000 Report Share Posted June 17, 2000 Hi, Well here is the report on my presentation at the American Society for Bariatric Surgery meeting. In general it went pretty much as expected. Many of the surgeons said a variety of very harsh things. Their criticisms can be summarized as: 1) This MGB must be the same as the old loop gastric bypass done years ago. Answer: It is not. The old loop put the bowel up close to the esophagus and mine does not. It puts far away from the esophagus at the end of the stomach tube. 2) Since #1 is true in their minds (It is not true) then my good results cannot be true (They are true) 3) If my results are not true and I claim they are true then I must be lying (I am not) In watching some of the other presentations I found our death rate is lower than others. My rate of clots in the legs (DVT), clot in the lungs (PE) and hernias are lower than anyone else (0, 0 and 0 respectively). Our rate of post op ulcers is 3% (17 people) and it is lower than the other RNY surgeons and we have no one with esophagitis and both of these things really bugged them because they were common problems with the old loop bypass (but the MGB is not the old loop gastric bypass). They really do not like the fact that I have a web page and several sarcastic comments were made about my use of the Internet. As I recall not one person said anything complimentary. There were a few of my Preop patients in the audience and they thought things went well (?). One is a surgeon who said he went through the very same thing 10-15 years ago when he presented a new approach in his area of surgery. I showed a slide of 's Preop contacts with 95 of MGB patients and the weight loss that they told her about. Nothing seemed to budge them from their prejudices. I had a great time and encouraged anyone who was skeptical to contact my patients directly to determine if my results (complications, operating times, hospital stays etc.) are real or not. In general I feel fine. The patients got to me quickly and were very supportive so I did not have any time to be down about things. The surgeon said I was a little arrogant, telling the group to look at my results and to confirm them for themselves if they were skeptical. He thought is was just right given how they were speaking to me. I can be a little abrupt at times. I was very sure of myself because our results are so much better than anyone else. Speaking if that here is a nice note from a patient who had her Lap RNY by another surgeon. She is doing great. >>>>RE: How long were you in the hospital and how long was your surgery and when did you go back to work??? RR >>>> Surgery time was **8 hours**, **7 ports** (1 inside the belly button) due to adhesions probably due to C-Section, and small walnut hernia at the top of my vertical C-Section. Total **hospital stay four days.** Three days in the hospital was recommended but I was 2 1/2 hours drive from home to hospital so Dr. S. (and I concurred) to add one more day. I felt that I took longer to recover than I had expected, maybe due to the length of the surgery? I believe I was pt# 35 for Dr. S's Lap RNY. They put me in a pseudo ICU (extra nursing care for the first night). A few hours after surgery I made sure I sat in a chair outside of the bed (with lots of help from the staff). The staff was very impressed that I was motivated enough to get out of bed within six hours. I took three weeks from work, maybe could have returned in two -- but I have an 18 month old and a husband who just had othro surgery on his knee and I was exhausted from all of the externals going on in my life. Well that's the update. Peace. RR Rutledge, M.D., F.A.C.S. The Center for Laparoscopic Obesity Surgery 4301 Ben lin Blvd. Durham, N.C. 27704 Telephone #: Fax #: Email: DrR@... ************************************************ Please Visit our Web site: http://clos.net ************************************************ Durham Regional Hospital: Also, Please consider joining the Mini-Gastric Bypass Mailing List at http://www.onelist.com MiniGastricBypass is a general discussion of the Mini-Gastric Bypass ( http://www.onelist.com/community/MiniGastricBypass ) Talk with lots of other Pre and Post Op patients and friends. Keep up to date on the latest news about the Mini-Gastric Bypass. 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