Category: Letters to the Editor
Early Experience: Bariatric Emergency During the COVID-19 Pandemic
by SABER GHIASSI, MD, MPH Dr. Ghiassi is with the Division of Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Department of Surgery at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. Bariatric Times. 2020;17(4):19. I checked the electronic medical records as soon as I received a call from the consult resident regarding a 59 year-old female […]
Letter to the Editor: Tackling Weight Bias from All Sources
by Peter D. Vash, MD, MPH, FTOS Dr. Vash is the past executive medical director of The Lindora Medical Clinics and an assistant clinical professor of medicine at UCLA Medical Center. He has served as president for the American Society of Bariatric Physicians (ASBP), now known as the Obesity Medicine Association (OMA), and has served […]
Medical tourism: A Financial and Ethical Problem in Bariatric Surgery
Funding/financial disclosures: The author has no conflicts of interest relevant to the content of this letter. No funding was received for the preparation of this letter. Bariatric Times. 2017;14(10):10–11. Dear Bariatric Times Editor: I saw a patient in the office for a weight loss consultation the other day. She met all of the criteria for […]
Intravenous Micronutrient Therapy (IMNT) for Gastric Bypass Patients: A Solution to Complications of an Often Unrecognized Problem
A letter to the Editor from Dr. Terrence M. Fullum Terrence M. Fullum, MD, MBA, FACS, Professor of Surgery, Howard University College of Medicine, Medical Director, Howard University Center for Wellness and Weight Loss Surgery, Washington, DC Funding: No funding was received for the preparation of this letter. Financial Disclosures: The author has no conflicts of interest […]
A Comment on Checklists in Bariatric Surgery Vitamin Deficiency after Bariatric Surgery: Parts 1 and 2
Dear Bariatric Times Editor: This letter is in response to the Checklists in the Bariatric Surgery series, specifically Checklist #22 published in the July 2014 issue and Checklist #23 published in the August 2014 issue.[1,2] Since these two checklists were designed to equip bariatric providers with an easy reference guide to use when treating and […]
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NEJMx2 Dear Bariatric Times Editor: In March, the New England Journal of Medicine published two important, prospective, randomized, and controlled series[1,2] that compared the outcomes of patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) treated with intensive medical therapy versus a similar cohort treated with bariatric surgery.
Childhood/Adolescent Obesity and State Intervention—Parents Not Solely to Blame in the Battle
Dear Bariatric Times Editor: This letter is in response to the an article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) by Ludwig and Murtagh entitled, “State intervention in life-threatening childhood obesity.”[1] As a frontline childhood obesity physician, I strongly disagree with the premise of this article.
