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Spotlight on Technology July–August 2023

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Postoperative Care and the Self-Paying Patient: Sometimes Surgeons Need to Compromise to Save Patients the Expense of Presenting to the Emergency Room with Unclear Symptoms

Dear Readers of Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times: I just returned from San Diego, California, where I attended the annual meeting of the The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic

New Study Shows Lower Incidences of Cardiovascular Events and Related Fatalities in Patients with Morbid Obesity Who Underwent Bariatric Surgery Compared to Patients Treated with Medical Therapy Alone

Dear Readers of Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times: In this issue of Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times, we deliver to you more outstanding articles and columns. If you have a

Looking Forward in 2012: ASMBS and ACS Join to Create a Unified Centers of Excellence Program

Dear Readers of Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times, I hope you had a good end-of-the-year celebration in 2011 and I wish you all a great 2012. In this first 2012

Prevention and Treatment of Obesity in Adolescents: A Worldwide Challenge

Dear Friends, Colleagues and Readers of Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times: As this year comes to an end, we are privileged to share with you another exciting issue of Metabolic

Patients with Morbid Obesity are Often in Denial of Their Condition

Dear readers of Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times, I cannot believe that it is already November and the holiday season is upon us. This month, I urge you to read

Proper Follow Up after Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding is the Responsibility of both the Patient and Doctor

Dear Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times readers: I just returned from the XVI World Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO), which took

Statistics Suggest that Obesity Thrives on a Low Income

Dear Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times friends and colleagues: I was glued to the radio trying to figure out what was going on with the stock market (bad idea) when

Outpatient Bariatric Surgery? More Things to Consider than Just Anesthesia Concerns

Dear Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times friends and colleagues: I am sure that all readers who attended the 28th annual meeting of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery

Another Study Suggests Patients are at Risk of Developing Transfer of Addiction after Bariatric Surgery Reminding Us, Yet Again, of the Importance of Follow Up

Dear Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times fans: The detrimental health implications of the obesity disease as well as the dramatic benefits and unusual side effects of bariatric surgery inducing weight