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Today I decided to become a doctor. Why? You might ask. My response is simple: many people profess a Christian faith, despite Proverbs states the drunkard and glutton will inherit poverty, most of this religious faith don’t believe a word that something my be wrong with becoming obese. But doctors should be grateful for the increased number of customers. Naturally, doctors follow their customer service skills and try to give people what they want. In the case of the obese, a intestinal surgery leads to promises of weight loss. Who cares about the morality of right and wrong. What kind of profit could a surgeon receive for operating on people? Well. Certainly, the exact profit margin can not be specified, but the cost estimates can. And from the external view, I believe once I become a surgeon, I could make lots of money from people who expect doctors to work miracles, and patients have zero responsibility. Establishing a realistic gastric bypass surgery price is extremely difficult and will vary widely from one individual to the next. Nevertheless, it is possible to establish a starting point and to give some general pointers to assist in getting a rough estimate of what you might be looking at. “Prices for minimally invasive restrictive surgery, such as gastric banding, will start at around about $15,000 while mixed surgeries, such as a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass or biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch, will come in at about $25,000. In both cases these figures will cover the costs of surgery and hospitalization in a standard medical facility and assume that there are no complications. If you decide to engage the services of a world renown surgical team in a leading facility the costs could of course be considerably higher,” according to the article What is a realistic Gastric bypass surgery price? Even worse, the the operation can lead to a complete neurological decline. In the Neurology journal the article Neurological complications of gastic bypasss surgery for morbid obesity by Katalin Juhasz-Pocsine and associates review this issue with weight loss complications. The neurologic complications affected most regions of the nervous system: encephalopathy, optic neuropathy, myelopathy, polyradiculoneuropathy, and polyneuropathy. Myelopathy was the most frequent and disabling problem; symptoms began about a decade after surgery. Encephalopathy and polyradiculoneuropathy were acute and early complications. Except for vitamin B12 and copper deficiencies in patients with myelopathy, we could not correlate specific nutritional deficiencies to the neurologic complications. All patients had multiple nutritional deficiencies, but their correction did not often yield dramatic results. The best result was achieved in one patient after surgical revision to reduce the bypassed jejunum. Conclusions: A wide spectrum of serious neurologic conditions may follow bariatric surgery. These complications may occur acutely or decades later. What this means is that the brain function can decline, that the nerve roots can be affected, that nerve damage can be expected in the feet and legs, that other neurological problems can occur and even affect the ability to walk. |
 But is is all a good deal for me thinking about entering the medical field. I can expect lots and lots of customer who would rather eat, disobey God's command to take care of the body, and allow me to get rich off of people who have been unable to deal with their weight issue. "Obesity in the United States is reaching pandemic
proportions with more than 63 million adult Americans with
obesity, defined as body mass index (BMI) of
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and 10.5 million with morbid obesity (BMI
