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New Column! Nutritional Considerations in the Bariatric Patient. This month: Pica: An Ancient Disorder with Modern Casualties

Nutritional Considerations in the Bariatric Patient Pica: An Ancient Disorder with Modern Casualties This Month’s Contributor: Liz Goldenberg, MPH, RD, CDN Ms. Goldenberg is a nutritionist at New York Presbyterian

Bariatric Patient Postoperative Pain: A Potentially Promising New Route

by Susannah M. Wyles, MSc, MRCS; Sherif Hakky, MSc, MRCS; Ahmed R. Ahmed, BSc, FRCS; and Jonathan M. Cousins, BSc, FRCA

Editorial Message: The decision to discharge patients should be the physician’s, not insurance carriers

Dear Friends: I am writing to you on my flight back from Washington, DC, where I attended the 96th Annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). Although

Making Sense of the Research Regarding Binge Eating and Bariatric Surgery Outcomes

by Alëna A. Balasanova, MS III Author affiliation: Ms. Balasanova is third-year medical student at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Funding: There was no funding for the development of this

The Professional’s Guide to Nutritional Supplements: Understanding Quality and Regulatory Issues

by Jacqueline Jacques, ND Dr. Jacqueline Jacques is a Naturopathic Doctor with more than a decade of expertise in medical nutrition. Dr Jacques has spent much of her career in

Management of Proximal Gastrogastric Fistula Due to Staple Line Dehiscence

This Month’s Featured Expert: Alfons Pomp, MD, FACS, FRCSC Dr. Pomp is a Leon C. Hirsch Professor, Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery, and Chief, Section of Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery,

5 Minutes With… Evan P. Nadler, MD

Dr. Nadler is Co-Director, Children’s National Obesity Institute, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC; Principal Investigator, Systems Biology Initiative, Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Washington, DC; Associate Professor

“Medical Tourism”—Dangerous for Patients and Difficult to Manage for Surgeons in the United States

Dear Readers: Welcome to the September 2010 issue of Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times. I just returned from Long Beach, California, where I attended the 15th Annual International Federation for

Endoluminal Management of Morbid Obesity

by Matthew J. Kruse, MD, and Miguel A. Burch, MD, FACS Dr. Kruse is from the Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California. Dr.

Standardizing Presurgical Psychological Evaluations with the PsyBari Psychological Test

by David Mahony, PhD, ABPP Dr. Mahony is a clinical psychologist from Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York Funding: There was no funding for the development of this article. Financial