Welcome to the January/February issue of The Surgeons’ Lounge. Wishing all our reades a Happy New Year. In this issue, Matthew Doble, MD, an advanced minimally invasive surgery and bariatrics fellow at Cleveland Clinic Florida, in Weston, interviews Raul J. Rosenthal, MD, of the Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, also from Cleveland Clinic Florida. Dr. Rosenthal discusses how the presence of reflux influences his decision between sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.
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