Dr. Gerald Kirshenbaum - Concerns about Kirshenbaum?

[Lap_dancer 8]

I will tell you why Dr K's patients LOVE him so much: For so many patients that don't have insurance or their insurance excludes WLS, Dr K is an affordable option here in the US. With Dr K, you can have surgery in the comfort and safety of the good 'ole USA. It is important to Dr K that people have another option other than going to Mexico. For under $10,000, Dr. K has a package that includes everything you need except your travel expenses for the one trip to Denver. Now, beyond the basic economics of using Dr K when you don't have insurance, there are more great things about him. He is FANTASTIC!!! I had a concern (that was nothing) on a Saturday and I paged him. He called me 1 minute later to help me. He called in a prescription and he called me back the next day (on a Sunday) to check on me. I have NEVER had another doctor (much less a surgeon) care about me in that way. And you ought to have seen my incisions. They were perfect. This guy really knows what he's doing. He is one of the most experienced laproscopic surgeons in Colorado. He does many lapbands, but he also does other abdominal surgeries (gall bladder removals, hernia repairs and the like). Sure his office is not fancy, but it is clean and perfectly fine with me. The surgical center he uses is very nice too. His staff is as nice as they can be. They are very considerate about working with me when I fly in for fills, and my plane is late. He is also an excellent fill doctor. He really has a good touch with fills. I can't say enough good things about him. I'm sorry you had a bad feeling about him, but I have more information than "just a feeling". I have a 10 month relationship with him and his office and I couldn't be more pleased. I just couldn't possibly be more pleased. Good luck with your surgery. I hope you will be as pleased with yours as I am with mine.

Wow. I must have had fog brain when I replied to this thread because I had forgotten a few things you posted about.

Yes, he did call us later that day after my surgery. We were back at the hotel, I was sleeping but he spoke to my husband to make sure I was doing alright.

Colorado I think what you are seeing isn't so much an attack but shock from a large group who have had a life of sad stories from being so obese and doctors who regularly criticize for being "overweight" and the following lecture of the need to lose weight (the lecture) with no viable options and here is someone who DOES offer a viable option minus the lecture, minus the guilt with an amazing bedside manner. He speaks very methodically and you don't feel RUSHED (which I hate).

We're all in the same boat rowing in the same direction. Whatever it takes for us to get there, whichever doctor is chosen is really not the point. The essential thing is we get healthy, we move away from borderline disabled to living a full life once again.

Less me more we.

Luck to everyone and safe healing/recovery with what doctor you choose.