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Okay... I have a question for all of you experieced lap banders.

Would you let someone who has just recently began doing lap bands do your surgery?

Apparently he is an experienced surgeon, but just recently completed his training to do lap bands. He is assisted by a surgeon that has been doing the lap band for 5+ years.

Unfortunatly with my insurance only the new surgeon will do the lap band... the experienced surgeon will not. The weird thing is that the two surgeons do the surgery together... with one assisting the other. Either way both will be in the operating room.

Advice please.

Thanks

Kris

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Absolutely, he'll have an experienced surgeon with him and he is already an experienced surgeon ( just not band experience)

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My doctor is a very experienced surgeon. He had been doing surgery for years. However, I was only his third lapband. I had no doubt in his ability to perform the surgery based on his experience, education, and statistics for other surgeries.

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If the surgeon who did my gall bladder decided to take up LapBand™ and asked me to be his first guinea pig, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

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the first doctor i interviewed has done 2000 gastric bypass surgeries but ZERO lapband procedures... and he made it clear that he's not really all for the banding. i chose to find someone else.

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Okay... for all of you experieced lap banders.

Would you let someone who has just recently began doing lap bands do your surgery?

Apparently he is an experienced surgeon, but just recently completed his training to do lap bands. He is assisted by a surgeon that has been doing the lap band for 5+ years.

Unfortunatly with my insurance only the new surgeon will do the lap band... the experienced surgeon will not. The weird thing is that the two surgeons do the surgery together... with one assisting the other. Either way both will be in the operating room.

Advice please.

Thanks

Kris

Not trying to be a smart ass but it sounds too me like its not a decision you get to make. Unless you go self pay.

Matt

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