Comments on: How doctors are selling weight loss surgery to teens

By: Lapband Help

Lapband Help — Sun, 17 Aug 2014 06:05:13 +0000

[…] How doctors are selling weight loss surgery to teens | The Ethical Nag […]

By: RN in NYC

RN in NYC — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:59:40 +0000

The powerful industry lobbyists have struck gold by convincing the FDA to loosen the criteria to increase the pool of potential “customers” for this procedure. In other non-marketing-based medical procedures, they are called patients.

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By: Not Happy

Not Happy — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 10:56:59 +0000

I agree with Had This Done. This is a deliberate and unnatural interference with the human body and we have to expect that Mother Nature knows best. When I called my lapband doctor’s office with ongoing issues afterwards around vomiting and feeling sick, they just put me off, and I had trouble getting follow-up care, despite their big promises pre-surgery about such ongoing care. They only want to hear from their happy satisfied customers whose before and after photos are in their slick advertising.

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By: I Had This Done

I Had This Done — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:41:03 +0000

This is so disturbing. These younger and less obese teens don’t get it. The simple act of eating a meal will be forever changed, and not in a good way. Forget going out to dinner with family or friends. How about ongoing vomiting and diarrhea that these stomach banding surgeons don’t tell you about? Some healthy foods, especially protein, make me feel sick, while ice cream goes down easy. Guess which one I prefer? And now I’m working out and exercising in a way that, if I had only done this pre-surgery, I wouldn’t even NEED the surgery.

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By: Cyclist

Cyclist — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:15:11 +0000

My understanding is that the size of your meals after gastric banding surgery has to be extremely small. Given that patients who are obese enough to qualify for this surgery have already demonstrated a problem eating extremely small meals, why would they expect that somehow they’ll miraculously be satisfied with unnaturally small portions post-op? As your article says, they have not done a good job of “following the rules” so far.

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