Carol in CA
In Southern CA after your PCP has referred you for a barriatric consult you
will have a choice of having the surgery at a group in San Diego called
Pacific Clinics (Ibelieve) or at UCLA. I have a friend who went for her
first appt in late June and got her December date 3 weeks later. If you are
going to do it get the ball rolling cuz once you decide the waiting will be
agonizing and fattening (I understand from my group that most people put on
10-20 lbs during a 1 month wait).
If you want to do your own in depth research you can use the google search
engine and look up "free medline" (It’s really not free if you find an
article you want, but if you do just go to your closest medical library to
pull the article). On medline look up barriatric surgery, or the specific
surgery you are interested in.
Good luck,
Rebecca