MGB: 21% MORBIDITY AND 1.5% MORTALITY WITHIN 15 YEARS

[Guest guest]

Again you are not tellin fact. I know for a fact that he has operated

on a woman older than 55. I met her at group in Hickory. Her husband had the

billrothll in the military and he is doing fine, her daughter also had the

mgb and she is pregnant, and doing fine. Yes I have talked to them. LOOk in

the manuel he is not hiding the complications he sets them out for all to see

and we have had to write pages of what can happen. You say that we may get

cancer in 15-35 years Isnt that funny that if I am 41 now in 35 years i will

be 76band in 15 i will be 56 about the time most people find out they have

cancers. The truth is that we all are candidates for cancer at that age.

There is a 30% chance that we will get cancer from eating pickles and

processed meats. If we already have problems with ulcers and gastritis we

again have a 30% chance of developing cancer of the stomach. If we have

reflux (which the surgery does help)again higher rate of cancers.

So arent you just trying to scare people, with Half truths? hugs marg

[Guest guest]

" ... at least 186 of us can expect severe complications and at least 14

of us

will be dead within 15 years. "

Rutledge put up a study under what he calls " BII morbidity " that shows

the BILLROTH II (he calls it the " MGB " ) HAS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER

COMPLICATION AND DEATH RATES than he has previously admitted.

http://www.clos.net/aotd/06-00/aotd0602.htm

see also: http://www.fourlane.com/mgb

http://www.mini-gastricbypass.com/OtherDoctors.htm

The study was of 526 patients who had a Billroth II at anytime between

1974 and 1989 (15 years).

The study was to see how many of these people got complications and how

many died from the Billroth II.

Note this 15 year period does not include people who got cancer from the

Billroth II and died. The cancer studies find that cancer occurs at

15-35 years after the Billroth II.

It shows that after the Billroth II, there is a 21% complication rate

and a 1.5 death rate directly caused by the Billroth II. The study also

notes (as the studies on my webpage also show) that these findings " are

in line with those reported in the literature and confirm that gastric

resection for duodenal ulcer. "

That is why none of the other doctors believe Rutledge's statistics of

having " less than 1% complications. " Rutledge is not doing the Billroth

II procedure any differently.

What he IS doing differently is that Rutledge has no way to do patient

followup on medical conditions. He sends out some haphazard emails

that patients may or may not get and may or may not answer but in the

case of

these sorts of medical complications, the patients may not know they

have the problems until after severe damage has already been done over

several years time.

WHAT DOES THE STUDY MEAN TO YOU, THE MGB SURVIVOR???

Apply those statistics to all of us who have had the MGB (not including

dying from cancer later).

He has done 900 patients. That means that at least 186 of us can expect

severe complications and at least 14 of us will be dead within 15 years.

Most of the people who have this surgery are young. The oldest any of

us are is 55. He's done surgery on people as young as 14. What if they

are one of the people who gets that 15 year death sentence?

The complications include gastritis, esophagitis and ulcers (all of

which can require serious surgery and treatment and can lead to death,

but death from those surgeries would not be counted in this study).

These are all exactly consistent with the studies I put up on my

webpage. http://www.fourlane.com/mgb

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Kind regards,

http://www.fourlane.com/lindat

lindat @ mindspring.com (no spaces)

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ROBERT R. RUTLEDGE, M.D., BUSTED!

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[Guest guest]

As a registered nurse, I know for a fact that these statistics are just about

the same if you are severely obese.

But, I wonder to myself...186 out of how many?...14 dead out of how many?

I must admit attorneys go to school for a very long time to get a doctorate

degree in twisting the truth, but we are not stupid, we know you cannot just

pull figures out of the air with another figure to compare it against.

186 OUT OF HOW MANY???? 14 OUT OF HOW MANY????????

I really want to know.

Regina in Charlotte