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Thanks for all the great advice, ya know when ya just don't have a good feeling about something it's probably better to look elsewhere----so that's what I did.

Called South Jersey Bariatrics on Monday and I have an appointment for this Friday--woohoo!! Their program fee is $250 as opposed to $600, and Tina their bariatric coordinator couldn't have been nicer and was happy to answer the questions that I had.

Can't wait to be in the recovery room :)

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Thanks for all the great advice, ya know when ya just don't have a good feeling about something it's probably better to look elsewhere----so that's what I did.

Called South Jersey Bariatrics on Monday and I have an appointment for this Friday--woohoo!! Their program fee is $250 as opposed to $600, and Tina their bariatric coordinator couldn't have been nicer and was happy to answer the questions that I had.

Can't wait to be in the recovery room :)

Wise move.

It seems like bariatric surgery is something that is easy and all the docs want a piece of the pie. There are just too many docs out there to put up with such an attitude. YOU pay THEM, not the other way around. To have a "don't call us, we'll call you attitude," OMG! I can't imagine! I used to work for mayo and if we would have ever approached any patient with such an attitude we would have been fired on the spot! And rightfully so. To actually have such a policy... mind boggling.

If they are like this before surgery when they want your business, think of how horrible they'd be after surgery.

Don't buy into that 'leading' or 'top' surgeon nonsense. Docs give themselves those titles to make them sound special.

Nobody is special enough to give them money and then they tell you that you can't call them.

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