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My Experiences with Truth

Bariatric surgery had been an enlightening journey for me for so many reasons. Prolonged interactions, understanding changing inter-personal relationships in family & guiding them with a firm but caring hand while maintaining dispassionate stance, had been a challenge.

My Experiences with Truth

The feedback from our facebook page ‘Centre for Metabolic Surgery, Mumbai’ & emails received have shown that expectations & concerns vary between patients. Apparent annonymity provides an outlet for expression which may not happen during consultations esp in presence of family or friends. Just last week...

My Experience with Truth

Inter human variation always intrigues me. How come the same surgery works well for most while not for few? They believe ncreased hunger & ability to eat frequent meals is the culprit. This explanation is based on poor understanding of post bariatric dietary education. Hunger is a physiological process...

Can you gain weight after Bariatric surgery?

Are you sure, the weight will not come back? This is one of the 3 mandatory questions every bariatric patient asks me. The others(which I shall cover in next blogs) being the safety & cost. What does everyone want to hear? The failings of past haunt obese like nothing...