Re: Dr. Pories/institution theory

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if that is the case, what about NYU, USC, and the other docs. and

groups that are doing the ds at their medical schools affiliated

hospitals? are they not teaching hospitals or institutions? is dr.

pories picky about what constitutes a REAL and VALID institution?

hmmmmm....i wonder?

mary y st.louis

>

> I searched on Medline for articles by Dr. Pories. I doubt that I

> found them all, as I only came up with 54, which is a low number

for

> a professor of medicine who received his MD in 1955.

>

> Still, among those 54, only one article was a followup on bariatric

> patients. (Several did concern how diabetes was seemingly

controlled

> by gastric bypass, but that's different.)

>

> Here's what gets me. The one followup study I found covered only

> FOUR YEARS!

>

>

> Regardless of that, I think that the guy's real problem is that

he's

> an academic snob. Note the last line of his piece on the DS,

> especially the last seven words:

>

> " Accordingly, I believe that until we have better data on its

> efficacy and safety, the biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal

> switch procedure should be performed only at institutions that are

> conducting rigorous clinical trials. "

>

> AH...

>

> " institutions that are conducting rigorous clinical trials. "

>

> I think that the word " institutions " is a code word for " MEDICAL

> SCHOOLS " -- you know, where ACADEMIC doctors hang out.

>

> And, I think that's why he's so quick to dismiss Dr. Hess, Dr.

> Rabkin, and Dr. Baltazar. Their studies couldn't possibly

> be " rigorous clinical trials, " because they don't work in the right

> kind of " institutions. "

>

> Having dealt with quite a few academics, I hope I am wrong about

> this, because I've never found any creature more intractable than

an

> academic who is waiting for the " right " proof of something.

>

> ):

>

> Tom