News for Indiana/Ohio DS patients

[GirlFriday]

Yesterday, I accompanied two friends to a new patient seminar at the St. Vincent Bariatric Center in Carmel, IN. This is the same place where I had my surgery, and my surgeon led the seminar. Before the seminar began, the nurse practioner mentioned that two of the surgeons (non-DS) were leaving St. Vincents to go to other parts of the country and that St. Vincents was going to get a new surgeon that would perform the DS, giving them a total of three surgeons there that do DS surgery.

When Dr. Inman was speaking to us, she told us that two surgeons were leaving the Bariatric Center and a surgeon from Ohio would be joining them in July. Without mentioning a surgeon's name, she did say that this move would leave Ohio without a surgeon that performs the DS. I was unable to get to speak to her one on one to ask the surgeon's name (there were 40 people in attendance - she was busy and I wasn't waiting an hour to meet with her just to get a name).

I thought this was interesting news and wanted to share it.

 

[southernlady]

The only KNOWN DS surgeon in Ohio is Dr. Teel who partnered with Dr. Macguire who retired. And to my knowledge, Dr. Teel doesn't LIKE the DS.

I know this because when I was hunting for a DS surgeon (after Dr. Williams in Boyce's office told me I was too small for a DS) in late 2010, I considered that office as an alternative. It really wasn't that far from me.

 

[GirlFriday]

Like I said, she didn't mention a name, she just said that the move would leave OH without a DS surgeon. She did say that with the addition of the new surgeon, the wait time for DS patients would be going down considerably.

 

[southernlady]

If it is Dr. Teel...he had a fantastic mentor in Dr. Macquire. And yeah, with the SMALL list of DS surgeons, many states don't have even one.

 

[Tanya]

I would be sad if it is Dr. Teel, as he was my surgeon (9.2014) and he was excellent at the cutting bit... but then I am nearly 10 months out and would survive by having my primary Dr. run all my labs anyway. lol