It's Official: Obesity surgery--40% of patients suffer complications

Four of every 10 patients who undergo weight-loss surgery develop complications within six months, the federal government said Sunday.

Many of the complications were so serious that patients were readmitted to hospitals or visited emergency rooms within six months.

The most common complications included vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal hernias, infections, pneumonia and respiratory failure, as well as the leaking of gastric juices caused by imperfect surgical connections between the stomach and the intestines.

Full Article, SF Chronicle, July 24, 2006

I've been warning people for years...but what do I know? What does Dr. Joseph Mercola know? Quite a bit, visit his website and do a search on gastric bypass

Now that the government says it, billions of dollars and many thousands of damaged lives later, maybe people will start to wake up? Naaaahhhh, just a one-day blip on the corporate media screen, and then back to slice and dice as usual.

TLC