Metabolic surgery in private practice

[摘要] Private practitioners played a major role in the evolution of advanced laparoscopic and bariatric surgery training. Academic physicians were disinterested in addressing obesity and were confronted with the distressing outcomes that followed the intestinal bypass. The private sector, with its marked surgeon autonomy and innovative mindset, was far more ready to accept early reports describing the successful outcomes of the gastric bypass operation. In fact, many of the first pivotal peer-reviewed papers in bariatric surgery were written by private practice surgeons, and the first certified bariatric centers of excellence (COEs) were private practices. Private practice surgeons also took the lead in initiating widespread training in bariatric surgery under the aegis of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), which was originally the American Society for Bariatric Surgery.

[学科分类] 外科医学