Good luck to you! I have to travel 3 hours for my surgery. The local doctors who do the surgery won't operate on anyone who is over 400 lbs. Stupid! I was like so what, you're telling me I'm too fat to have WLS? Whatever! I found the next two closest doctors and called both. The first one was only a little more than an hour away but I was extremely unimpressed by their office. The people there were extremely rude! Both my local surgeon and the one an hour away are not WLS specialists. They are both part of general surgical practices and have only done a relatively small number of WLS. The surgeon who I went with only does WLS. Heck, the name of his practice is Carolina Weight Loss Surgery! I am very happy with him. I will have to travel for follow-up appointments, but I have found a local support group that I am planning on attending. There are many people in the support group who have had surgery with many different doctors. For the sake of safety, I'm glad I'm having surgery by someone who has done thousands and not just a few hundred!
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