Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Surgery can't be sole answer to obesity

Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, September 23rd, 2005

Based upon the steadily rising number of bariatric operations performed to combat obesity, decisions to go under the knife in many cases may be made in haste. Moreover, consideration for Medicare coverage of obesity surgery may further accelerate the trend.

Operations performed on patients who must lose weight rapidly in order to survive can certainly save lives, according to Peter Pressman, a practicing physician at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. But, he said, "Poor patient selection and incompletely studied complications and results may fail to clearly draw conclusions about the efficacy and safety of these procedures."

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Source: Medicine and Law Weekly (2005-09-23)

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