Doctor's Guide to Weight Loss Surgery How to Make the Decision That Could Save Your Life

Obesity is now the most common disease in the U.S.A.--one in four adults is obese--accounting for nearly 300,000 preventable deaths annually. When diet and exercise programs fail, when drug treatments bring serious and unpleasant side effects, the ten million adults in this country who are classified as morbidly obese may choose to consider weight loss surgery for a long-term solution. Now all the information needed to make that personal, crucial decision can be found in this revised and expanded edition of the originally self-published book. Readers will learn: - Who is a candidate for surgery- What weight loss surgery is and all the available surgical approaches- How to get insurance to cover the surgeryTimely, practical, compassionate and unique, The Doctor's Guide To Weight Loss Surgery should be in every bookstore's health section.Flancbaum, Louis is the author of 'Doctor's Guide to Weight Loss Surgery How to Make the Decision That Could Save Your Life' with ISBN 9780971096806 and ISBN 0971096805.