Showing posts with label death from gastric surgery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death from gastric surgery. Show all posts
Saturday, August 18, 2018
Deadly Doctors and Their Deadly Industry
If the surgery doesn't kill you their drugs will. Wake up fatties! There is nothing wrong with your stomach or your intestines. Your digestive system is just fine. You don't need to pay some greedy bastardly butcher to fuck up your stomach and your intestine. If you want to lose weight and keep it off simply admit that your are a greedy glutton and then stop being a greedy glutton from this day forward. If you are a moral person you will cease your gluttonous behavior now and you will encourage others to do the same. If you are a fat fucking idiot then walk into the medical meat grinder and bring the other lemmings along with you and live on protein shakes for the rest of your miserable worthless life.
Your gluttony and the FOOD and DRUG Administration is why you are a big fat waddling eating machine. Grow up and cut your calories to 2500 or less if you are a man and 2000 if you are a woman. There is no reason for why you can't do that and you know it PIG!
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Why Weight Loss Surgery Has a High Failure Rate
Weight Loss Surgery: Beware the Pitfalls
Usually, during the first two years after bariatric surgery, diet and exercise changes come easily and that in and of itself is a huge problem. Everything is too easy for fatlings. The never learn how to bite the bullet and toughen up.
There is such unhealthy rapid weight loss, and there's a bit of euphoria with that. They're active and feeling wonderful which in part could be ketogenic psychosis. Once weight loss goals are reached, it's time for maintenance mode. That's a risky stage for some people -- as some slip into bad habits because they have never acknowledged their gluttonous and hedonistic nature.
For gastric bypass patients, weight loss can plateau at two years, They're not consistently losing anymore. They're at a steady weight because they have relied on the barbaric restrictions of bariatric butchering.
When they slack off exercise because they begin to feel like crap due to malnutrition, start snacking because they are literally starving for essential nutrients they will instinctively eat bigger portions in a desperate attempt to replace the nutrients they now lack. This will cause the victim to gain weight back and then some.
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Sunday, December 18, 2016
The Frightful Truth About Weight Loss Surgery
More on the Actual Gastric Bypass Death Rate
A helpful blog reader send me the full PDF version of the study of the long term outcome of weight loss surgery in Pennsylvania which was cited in the previous blog post.
Death Rates and Causes of Death after Bariatric Surgery for Pennsylvania Residents 1994-2004. Bennet I. Omalu et. al. Arch Surg. 2007;142(10):923-928.
Typically when a surgeon tells you the mortality rate for a surgery, he tells you only the percentage of those who died within 30 days of the surgery. This study looked both at the actual deaths within 30 days after surgery and in the death rate in the years after the surgery.
As the study reports, in the 16,683 people who had weight loss surgery in Pennsylvania between 1994 and 2004, .9% died within 30 days of the surgery. That translated into 150 people.
But wait. That statistic was taken from the group as a whole. When the population is broken out by age, a much scarier statistic emerges: In the age group 55-64 1.53% were dead within 30 days, or 15 out of 1000 who had the surgery. And for the age group of those 65 and older, 3.1% died within 30 days, or 3 out of every hundred.
But that was just in the first 30 days after surgery. The study looked at time since surgery, and with each passing year the number of dead grew greater.
By one year after surgery, 2.1% of the group had died. (Twenty-one out of every thousand.) By two years, 2.9%. Then things got worse. Three years after they had had the surgery, 3.7% were dead. By four years, 4.8% and by five years, 6.4%.
The authors of this study remark that they did not follow up on the results of subsequent surgeries. But other studies have found that many people who have weight loss surgery require one or more follow up surgeries in the years that follow the initial surgery. It is likely that each subsequent surgery raises the risk of further complications and death.
Another chilling statistic emerged from the analysis of this data. In a population of the same size of the same demographic make up, the expected number of suicides would be 2. However, in this group, there were 16 suicides and an additional 14 drug overdose deaths. Most of these occurred at least one year after the surgery. The authors of the study speculate that many of the drug overdoses were probably suicides too, and flag this as a serious problem that requires more study.
What was missing in this study was one important piece of information: the weight loss achieved by the people who died. The authors assume that the high death rate is due to health conditions contracted while obese or due to weight regain. But this is only speculation. They did not review any statistics about the size of the people at death, which would have been difficult to do since only about 1/3 of these victims were autopsied.
But based on stories I have heard and cases like Mrs. Yamin's it may be premature to assume that the deaths were caused by obesity. Mrs. Yamin weighed 100 lbs at her death. Instead deaths may have been caused by long term malnutrition--i.e. starvation. Though the most common cause of death listed on death certificates after a year was cardiovascular (i.e. heart attacks) that is what kills a lot of people with anorexia and starvation. When the body is no longer absorbing nutrients the electrolytes can become dangerously unbalanced and that causes heart attack. Without independent autopsies, it is very hard to know what really happened.
Doctors don't like autopsies, because a patient who didn't have an autopsy is a patient whose family is going to have a much tougher time suing for malpractice. So if a heart stops beating, well, write it down as cardiovascular death, and since the person was once fat, who is going to challenge it?
But folks, please take these statistics seriously. And please note that the things that killed people within the first 30 days were NOT necessarily caused by obesity. Among the biggest killers were pulmonary embolism (20.7% of all early deaths)and sepsis (i.e. infection that spread through the body causing organ shut down). Sepsis killed 11.3% of those who died in the first 30 days. One out of four died of vaguely specified "therapeutic complications" which is a catchall term entered on the death certificate that included things like sepsis, bleeding, ruptured surgical wounds, etc.
One last word. Many people erroneously believe that before a doctor can perform a specific kind of surgery, that surgery must undergo the same kind of safety testing and approval process that drugs get. This is not true. Surgeons can perform any surgery they want, as long as they are licensed surgeons.
There is only one limitation on what kind of surgeries are performed: whether or not insurance companies will pay for them. Most insurers won't pay for operations that have a poor safety record--once they have enough data to know that the operation isn't safe.
But weight loss surgery is usually NOT paid for by insurers. Like plastic surgery, it is a surgery that patients pay for out of their own funds. This is one reason surgeons promote it so strongly. There are no forms for them to to fill out, no limit on what they can charge, and most importantly, no evaluating the patient's suitability for the surgery by pesky insurance review boards. All the doctor has to do is sell the patient on the operation, and the fun can begin.
So don't let yourself become a victim of a surgeon who has found a dandy way to make himself a multi-millionaire. And don't trust that the doctor who stands to make $25,000 for a few hours of work has your welfare in mind when he assures you that a surgery is no more dangerous than crossing the street. Remember, surgeons rarely track the outcome of their surgeries beyond six weeks. But as the Pennsylvania study suggests weight loss surgery keeps on killing for years after the initial surgery.
Don't let yourself become a victim.
Death Rates and Causes of Death after Bariatric Surgery for Pennsylvania Residents 1994-2004. Bennet I. Omalu et. al. Arch Surg. 2007;142(10):923-928.
Typically when a surgeon tells you the mortality rate for a surgery, he tells you only the percentage of those who died within 30 days of the surgery. This study looked both at the actual deaths within 30 days after surgery and in the death rate in the years after the surgery.
As the study reports, in the 16,683 people who had weight loss surgery in Pennsylvania between 1994 and 2004, .9% died within 30 days of the surgery. That translated into 150 people.
But wait. That statistic was taken from the group as a whole. When the population is broken out by age, a much scarier statistic emerges: In the age group 55-64 1.53% were dead within 30 days, or 15 out of 1000 who had the surgery. And for the age group of those 65 and older, 3.1% died within 30 days, or 3 out of every hundred.
But that was just in the first 30 days after surgery. The study looked at time since surgery, and with each passing year the number of dead grew greater.
By one year after surgery, 2.1% of the group had died. (Twenty-one out of every thousand.) By two years, 2.9%. Then things got worse. Three years after they had had the surgery, 3.7% were dead. By four years, 4.8% and by five years, 6.4%.
The authors of this study remark that they did not follow up on the results of subsequent surgeries. But other studies have found that many people who have weight loss surgery require one or more follow up surgeries in the years that follow the initial surgery. It is likely that each subsequent surgery raises the risk of further complications and death.
Another chilling statistic emerged from the analysis of this data. In a population of the same size of the same demographic make up, the expected number of suicides would be 2. However, in this group, there were 16 suicides and an additional 14 drug overdose deaths. Most of these occurred at least one year after the surgery. The authors of the study speculate that many of the drug overdoses were probably suicides too, and flag this as a serious problem that requires more study.
What was missing in this study was one important piece of information: the weight loss achieved by the people who died. The authors assume that the high death rate is due to health conditions contracted while obese or due to weight regain. But this is only speculation. They did not review any statistics about the size of the people at death, which would have been difficult to do since only about 1/3 of these victims were autopsied.
But based on stories I have heard and cases like Mrs. Yamin's it may be premature to assume that the deaths were caused by obesity. Mrs. Yamin weighed 100 lbs at her death. Instead deaths may have been caused by long term malnutrition--i.e. starvation. Though the most common cause of death listed on death certificates after a year was cardiovascular (i.e. heart attacks) that is what kills a lot of people with anorexia and starvation. When the body is no longer absorbing nutrients the electrolytes can become dangerously unbalanced and that causes heart attack. Without independent autopsies, it is very hard to know what really happened.
Doctors don't like autopsies, because a patient who didn't have an autopsy is a patient whose family is going to have a much tougher time suing for malpractice. So if a heart stops beating, well, write it down as cardiovascular death, and since the person was once fat, who is going to challenge it?
But folks, please take these statistics seriously. And please note that the things that killed people within the first 30 days were NOT necessarily caused by obesity. Among the biggest killers were pulmonary embolism (20.7% of all early deaths)and sepsis (i.e. infection that spread through the body causing organ shut down). Sepsis killed 11.3% of those who died in the first 30 days. One out of four died of vaguely specified "therapeutic complications" which is a catchall term entered on the death certificate that included things like sepsis, bleeding, ruptured surgical wounds, etc.
One last word. Many people erroneously believe that before a doctor can perform a specific kind of surgery, that surgery must undergo the same kind of safety testing and approval process that drugs get. This is not true. Surgeons can perform any surgery they want, as long as they are licensed surgeons.
There is only one limitation on what kind of surgeries are performed: whether or not insurance companies will pay for them. Most insurers won't pay for operations that have a poor safety record--once they have enough data to know that the operation isn't safe.
But weight loss surgery is usually NOT paid for by insurers. Like plastic surgery, it is a surgery that patients pay for out of their own funds. This is one reason surgeons promote it so strongly. There are no forms for them to to fill out, no limit on what they can charge, and most importantly, no evaluating the patient's suitability for the surgery by pesky insurance review boards. All the doctor has to do is sell the patient on the operation, and the fun can begin.
So don't let yourself become a victim of a surgeon who has found a dandy way to make himself a multi-millionaire. And don't trust that the doctor who stands to make $25,000 for a few hours of work has your welfare in mind when he assures you that a surgery is no more dangerous than crossing the street. Remember, surgeons rarely track the outcome of their surgeries beyond six weeks. But as the Pennsylvania study suggests weight loss surgery keeps on killing for years after the initial surgery.
Don't let yourself become a victim.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Gastric Bypass Complications
Death
The national mortality rate for gastric bypass surgery is 1 in 50 patients, much higher than the mortality rate for any major surgery on an obese patient. The death rate varies tremendously between surgeons and programs, so you must ask each surgeon this question directly and hear the lies. Know that “surgical mortality” is officially defined as any death, within 30 days of an operation but many people who are butchered by these butchers suffer a long and agonizing death
Wound Infection
Wound infections are less likely to occur with laparoscopic surgery than with the traditional open incision. However, patients with diabetes are at higher risk for developing wound infections after any type of surgery and obese patients require larger doses of antibiotics to prevent post-operative infection. Wound infections are treated with antibiotics and incision care. Internal infections are very common because doctors are negligent when it comes to sterilizing surgical instruments.
Pneumonia
Obese patients require more aggressive post-operative respiratory care to prevent fluid build-up in the lungs that can lead to pneumonia. Patients who undergo the laparoscopic technique (vs. the open incision) are much more comfortable after surgery, and are therefore more able to do the coughing and deep breathing that prevents pneumonia. Depending on the severity of the pneumonia, it may be treated on an outpatient basis with antibiotics or in the hospital with IV antibiotics and breathing treatments but the truth is American hospitals are germ factories and make huge profits from HIAs (Hospital Acquired Infections)
Deep Vein Thrombosis/Pulmonary Embolism
Because patients who undergo the laparoscopic technique (vs. the open incision) are much more comfortable after surgery, they are more able to walk and prevent the development of blood clots in the legs (deep vein thrombosis) that can lead to pulmonary embolism (clot breaking off and landing in the lung artery), and death. The treatment for DVT is blood thinners. The treatment for PE can require lysing (dissolving) the clot, blood thinners or more invasive techniques. Pulmonary embolism has been shown in the research to be the most common cause of death after the gastric bypass, so it’s very important to get up and walk and exercise after the surgery to avoid getting clots!
Bowel Obstruction from Scar
Bowel obstructions can form due to adhesions (internal scar tissue) after surgery. There is slightly less risk for developing this type of bowel obstruction with laparoscopic surgery, because there is so much less scar tissue from the laparoscopic technique. The treatment for internal scar tissue can range from resting in the hospital to undergoing surgery. So as you can see bowel obstructions from scars create huge profits for the hospital.
Incisional Hernia
Hernias that form along the incision are less common with laparoscopic, vs. open surgery. While occurring in less than 1% of patients after the laparoscopic gastric bypass, the incidence can be 15-20% after the open surgery. The treatment for incisional hernia is surgical repair.
Bleeding
It is not all that rare to require a blood transfusion during gastric bypass surgery. Do not recommend that patients donate blood prior to surgery.
The following are complications specific to Gastric Bypass Surgery:
Stricture
A stricture, or narrowing of the attachment between the stomach and intestine, can form due to scar tissue. This condition generally occurs in 25% of gastric bypass patients, but it varies between surgeons. It usually occurs between the first and third post-operative month, although smokers are at an increased lifetime risk for developing a stricture. The treatment typically consists of “endoscopic dilation” where the patient is sedated and a scope is passed through the mouth to the stomach and used to dilate the connection back to normal size. This is a lucrative outpatient procedure.
Leak
A leak is an area, most commonly where bowel and stomach are connected with staples, that doesn’t seal as quickly as the rest of the connection. The national average for post-operative leaks with gastric bypass surgery is 14%. The treatment varies between antibiotics and an operation, depending on the severity of the leak. CHA CHING!
Internal Hernia
An internal hernia can form when the bowel twists or blocks itself. Fewer than 5% of gastric bypass patients develop an internal hernia. Surgery is required to repair an internal hernia.
Side Effects
Most patients have problems at all after Gastric Bypass Surgery. Some patients experience side effects of: nausea/vomiting (especially if they are sensitive to anesthesia), constipation, Dumping Syndrome (sensitivity to sugar and/or fat and other foods) and hair thinning due to chronic male nutritions. All patients have increased sensitivity to alcohol, absorbing 4 times as much alcohol from a drink and becoming easily intoxicated.
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