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Free Gastric Bypass Surgery
GDO Report
Gastric bypass surgery to shrink your stomach and cause you to lose weight can cost tens of thousands of dollars, unless your employer can pay the bill. Louisiana has picked 40 of its state employees, all obese, and will pay for their stomach reduction surgeries. The idea is to save money in the long run. Jimi Sanders is one of the 40. She needs to lose about 100 pounds and no diet or exercise program has worked for her. "I always thought I could get in control of it and after so long and so many years, I can't. I can't do it," says Jimi. The state of Louisiana will study Jimi and the others for the next five years to answer the question, which costs more? Surgery now or continuing obesity with all of its medical problems? For the surgeons at St. Elizabeth's and St. Joseph's hospitals, there is no doubt. They say stomach reduction is cost effective. "We're able to get them off their high blood pressure medicine, their cholesterol medicines, many are off their diabetes medicines after they've lost some of their weight," says Dr. Robert Woodruff at St. Joseph's hospital. A St. Elizabeth surgeon, Dr. Vincent Vanek, said he wishes Ohio would copy Louisiana and he's afraid some insurance companies are pulling back from coverage. Both hospitals have now done 300 stomach reductions in the past two years, claiming most a success.
The stomach is divided, creating a new small stomach shaped like a long narrow tube. Then 6 feet of the small intestine is bypassed. The small stomach causes people to eat less and the bypassed bowel means that less fat and calories are absorbed. The entire Mini-Gastric Bypass procedure may take as little as twenty minutes. Thirty to thirty-five minutes is the norm. Less time under anesthesia means quicker recovery with a far lower risk of complications. And the therapeutic results of Mini-Gastric Bypass have been excellent. The Mini-Gastric Bypass has risks and complications, but the Mini-Gastric Bypass may be able to help you achieve the weight loss you’ve only dreamed about, and set you on a new road to a thinner, healthie
ABOUT GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY Introduction to Weight Loss Surgery Options
Today one of the weight loss treatment options that is offered to patients who are severely overweight is gastric bypass surgery. We can perform the surgery laproscopically (using 6-7 tiny incisions) or the more traditional open technique (1 larger incision). Gastric bypass surgery is an appropriate alternative for patients who have tried all conservative measures to control their weight and have failed. We know that when people are more than 100 pounds over their ideal body weight, they suffer psychologically, socially, and physically. Their risk for hypertension, diabetes, coronary artery disease, lung disease, arthritis, cancer, gallbladder disease, shortness of breath, chronic back pain, sleep disorders, fluid retention, and early death are increased. We also know that we can treat patients successfully; we reduce the risk and severity of their problems, along with improving their quality of life. The prospect of having an operation to solve this weight problem is a big step, but it takes a big step to solve a big problem. It is only after all other reasonable measures at weight reduction have failed that weight loss surgery is a reasonable consideration. About the Gastric Bypass Surgery
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