Beyond Change

One might say that I have been around for a long time. Working in this business for over 30 years I can say that I remember working with bariatric surgery patients when surgery for weight loss definitely was not cool. I can not remember how I became so infatuated with this business but somehow the intrigue, the frustration, patient enthusiasm and being a part of helping others became my life’s ambition. It was back in the early 1980’s after working with a surgeon doing vertical banded gastroplasties that I decided to attend my first annual meeting of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery. Although the society began in 1976 the few of us who would be known as the Allied Health Science