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Category: Bariatric Surgery
Conveying Empathy: Why Are We Still Struggling?

by Tracy Martinez, RN, BSN, CBN Background There are an estimated 93 million Americans who are obese and an estimated 12 million suffering from morbid obesity. This life-threatening disease in

Insights in Interventional Diabetology: Generations of Work Coming Together

An Interview with: Dr. Walter Pories,Professor of Surgery, East Carolina University School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Greenville, North Carolina, Past President, ASMBS Dr. Neil Hutcher, Commonwealth Surgeons, Ltd., Richmond,

Book Review of Bradley The Dog Who Couldn’t Stop Eating

Bradley The Dog Who Couldn’t Stop Eating by Linda Trainor, Illustrated by John Ewing.

On the Air with… David B. Sarwer, PhD

Interviewed by Cynthia Alexander, PsyD When Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times asked me to interview Dr. David Sarwer, I jumped at the chance. There are only a handful of psychologists

Retrograde intussusception after bariatric surgery: How rare?

Letters to the Editor Dear Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times Editor: I recently read Dr. Hildago’s article—coauthored by you and published in the February issue of Metabolic & Bariatric Care

Matrix Medical Communications Names Colleen Hutchinson Senior Managing Editor of Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times

Edgemont, PA—May 15, 2009— Matrix Medical Communications (MMC) is pleased to announce the promotion of Colleen Hutchinson to Senior Managing Editor of Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times. This new title

The Experts on Bariatric Fellowships…Where Are We?

Like to know more about bariatric fellowships? In this exclusive interview, on behalf of Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times, Dr. Daniel Jones, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, posed questions

Laparoscopic Assisted Transvaginal Cholecystectomy (LATC) in a Series of 100 Patients

by Verena Mueller, MD; Matthias Federlein, MD;Klaus Gellert, MD; and Jens Burghardt, MD Drs. Mueller, Federlein, and Gellert are from the Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Sana Klinikum Lichtenberg,

Gastrointestinal Hormones and their Relationship to Bariatric Surgery

by Daniel J. Rosen, MD; and Alfons Pomp, MD, FACS Introduction When most of us learned about gastrointestinal physiology, cholecystokinin was an enzyme. It turns out that it is actually

Emerging Technologies—Single-Incision Laparoscopic Surgery: How and Why?

by Jenny Choi, MD; Luca Milone, MD; and Column Editor Marc Bessler, MD This ongoing column investigates current research in the surgical and clinical aspects of obesity treatment and educates