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What is Bariatric Surgery?
Today we will talk with Dr Arun Dhir at Melbourne gastro surgery in Melbourne to discuss and explore bariatric surgery and find out a little bit more about the different types of surgery and Aaron’s experience with the surgeries. Well, it’s been a journey of over two and a half decades now seems like a long time ago, but I think when I was in med school, there was little that was offered in terms of a solution to tackle obesity because it wasn’t so much of an issue at that point in time. However, we have seen that , as technology has advanced and our society as a whole, but the advent of more convenient foods and lifestyle changes.,we have been seeing this, you know, scourge of obesity not only come up in developed nations, but it’s the developing nations which are facing the brunt significantly. Now, I often say this to patients that...
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