Guest guest Posted December 10, 2001 Report Share Posted December 10, 2001 You are spot on, long term (from my personal research) the band doesn't work for 75% of the patients. When i said three weeks later.... My husband and I saw Dr Fielding three weeks ago at his surgery for my final consult for my operation. Sorry but New York is a rather large hop skip and jump from me.... Tracey Brisbane, Australia..... Re: Why surgeons are changing from the DS > > > Hello. > > What Nick said here: > > > It is a shame that surgeons who aren't up to handling the > > complexity of the DS spend their time bashing it instead of > > perfecting their techniques. > > is so concisely worded that I hesitated (but only for a second!) to > throw in my third? posting of what Dr. Gagner personally said to me > about this issue. > > His statement was SOMETHING to this effect: " The old BPD without > duodenal switch that [Ren, , et al] are doing is a complete > and total regression. Maybe they are taking their cues from Dr. > Fielding of Australia. The only reason I can see that they would be > doing this is that the BPD alone is much easier on the surgeon. I am > not interested in 'easy.' I do what's best for my patients. " > > Ya know, I have since wondered about this Fielding guy. Didn't > Tracey just report that he, too, was abandoning the D/S, BUT THAT HE > JUST DID SO VERY RECENTLY? If so, then where did Gagner's " Maybe > they are taking their cues from Dr. Fielding of Australia " come from > in October of this year? Any ideas? Has Fielding been > researching/writing about BPD vs. BPD/DS for a while?? > > Best, > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2001 Report Share Posted December 10, 2001 Tracey, How about Oregon and Dr Welker? He already had a patient from down under who had her DS I think going on 2 yrs now.... Judie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2001 Report Share Posted December 10, 2001 Judie Thanks for the thought, but 1. We can barely afford to have DS here, let alone adding airfares to that as well 2. My private health cover wouldnt cover it, because there is a local surgeon. Tracey Re: Fielding Tracey, How about Oregon and Dr Welker? He already had a patient from down under who had her DS I think going on 2 yrs now.... Judie ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2001 Report Share Posted December 10, 2001 My private health cover wouldnt cover it, because there is a local surgeon. Tracey but it sounds like your local surgeon is not doing the DS for you......dang! I wish things were not so complicated, Tracey! Hugs, Judie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 11, 2001 Report Share Posted December 11, 2001 Hi Again, Judie, Speaking of Dr. Welker, I tried to contact him by email and never did get a reply. Someone included his email address in a post and I just clicked on it. Could you please email me privately with his information in case my email didn't go through? Thanks a bunch! BTW, have talked to Walter and am getting the ball rolling on potentially enacting WLS legislation here in CA. Will keep you posted. Blessings, Sue Everett > Tracey, > How about Oregon and Dr Welker? He already had a patient from down under > who had her DS I think going on 2 yrs now.... > > Judie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 11, 2001 Report Share Posted December 11, 2001 Hi Again, Judie, Speaking of Dr. Welker, I tried to contact him by email and never did get a reply. Someone included his email address in a post and I just clicked on it. Could you please email me privately with his information in case my email didn't go through? Thanks a bunch! BTW, have talked to Walter and am getting the ball rolling on potentially enacting WLS legislation here in CA. Will keep you posted. Blessings, Sue Everett > Tracey, > How about Oregon and Dr Welker? He already had a patient from down under > who had her DS I think going on 2 yrs now.... > > Judie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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