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- adjective Referring to the branch of
medicine bariatrics , thetreatment ofobesity andweight problems.
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Also, why is medical tourism in bariatric surgery more risky than in other types of surgery, like cosmetic surgery for example?
Risks of Medical Tourism for Bariatric Surgery | Dr. Sharma's Obesity Notes 2010
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This industry is often called the bariatric industry.
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This industry is often called the bariatric industry.
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This industry is often called the bariatric industry.
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Readers with a particular interest in bariatric surgery should be aware of the new comprehensive guidelines for the perioperative nutritional, metabolic, and non-surgical support for the bariatric surgery patient jointly published by the American Association of Clinical Endocriologists, The Obesity Society, and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, also published as a supplement to this month’s issue of OBESITY.
Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Perioperative Bariatric Guidelines 2009
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Surgery for weight loss (called bariatric surgery) used to be seen as a last resort.
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Surgery for weight loss called bariatric surgery used to be seen as a last resort.
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It's called a bariatric surgeon is the specialty, the area.
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Most of these so-called bariatric surgeries, where the stomach is either stapled or shrunk surgically by removing part of the stomach, are performed by surgeons who, like most cosmetic surgeons in America, haven't been specially certified to do this kind of operation.
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A leading expert said people in Wales are dying because the operations - known as bariatric corrsurgery - are not being funded.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
bilby commented on the word bariatric
"Two hundred years on, I'm in a bariatric ambulance (an alternative term for obese, favoured by the medical world because it's less shaming to patients) investigating why the UK is in the midst of an obesity crisis."
- Jacques Peretti, Why our food is making us fat, The Guardian, 11 June 2012.
Aside: interesting anecdote at the top of that article about Britain's first obese man.
January 29, 2013