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Dear Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times Editor: I was duly impressed with the advanced laparoscopic skills demonstrated by the authors of the article “Single-incision Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy” in your February
by Tony Chan, MD; Sheela Patel; and Amir Mehran, MD Drs. Chan and Mehran, and Ms. Patel are all from the Matabolic and Bariatric Surgery Program, University of California Los
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Dear friends, colleagues, and readers of Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times: As I opened Google news this morning, I found an article in the healthcare news section entitled “Worldwide Obesity