Posts Tagged ‘sleeve gastrectomy’

Patterns of Repetition

Revisiting Gastric Sleeve and Bypass Surgeries

December 20, 2019 — One and done is a lovely turn of phrase. It’s also one of those sweet little lies about dealing with obesity. “You can lose the weight and keep it off for good.” That’s the seductive promise of a currently trendy weight loss app. It’s also implicit in the false positioning of bariatric surgery as a […]

Tomato Incision

Progress on a Nonsurgical Gastric Sleeve Procedure

May 12, 2017 — People don’t like surgery. No matter how you put it, knives are scary. Even though data on the benefits of bariatric surgery could hardly be stronger, less than one percent of the people who could benefit actually choose to have bariatric surgery. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that new data on a nonsurgical gastric […]