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Peter Liao
"I met Doctor Liao a year ago on 2/10/04 a day before I was to have gbs under the care of another surgeon. My lung doctor did not feel comfortable with my having surgery at that time and asked me to get a second opinion and told me about a doctor (Liao) that was setting up gbs practice in the same hospital where my lung doctor and my pcp already practiced. I trust my lung doctor and I took his advice. Dr. Liao is a very gentle person but firm in explaining the surgery and in presenting the program I knew there was a lot of thought put into the program. I postponed having surgery but did not commit to Dr. Liao's program, my head was spinning having to cancel with another surgeon. I finally decided to give Dr. Liao's program a try on 10/14/04 after waiting for the doctor I had been seeing since 10/03, I did not want to get to know another doctor or staff because I had put so much into the first doctor's program and I needed to be sure that leaving was in my best interest. The first surgeon operated at a hospital that no longer wanted to offer gbs due to his pending and possibly future litigations (law suits}. The first surgeon asked his patients including me to wait while he relocated to another hospital 2 weeks at the most. The wait went from the end of June til December 04 for him to operate again but by then I had decided to try other options. I saw a second doctor who had performed surgery on my neice 9/04 he knew of the first surgeon's problems and was doing surgery on those waiting patients immediately. I went to him on the advisment of my neice thinking finally I will get a date for surgery, NOT! When I saw the surgeon he told me he needed to be sure of my committment and he would not take me on as a patient until I proved I was serious about weight loss and recommended I see his nutritionist so that I could lose some weight because I have severe asthma,I was told I was a high risk person having a high risk surgery which I knew and thought well everyone having gbs is high risk which is the reason to consider this in the first place what surgeon 2 said made sense in regard to committment but I decided to try the program of Dr. Liao's since I could not get my surgery as fast as I thought and the second surgeon , Dr. A I'll call him seemed very put off that I had asthma and was on prednisone, he might as well have said get out, you are too risky. I can honestly say what I went through was for a reason because I now know I am where I need to be and I am more happy than I could imagine. I just had to go around the mulberry bush. Dr. Liao and the staff are professionals, I have never heard them say one negative word about another surgeon, program or patient. You are advised according to your needs as an individual. You recieve optimum patient care with some of the best technology. The explanations of the what, when, why's and how's of surgery are so complete it was very impressive. I never walked away feeling unsure or uneasy. Aftercare is more than emphasized and I can't help but feel blessed. I think I have an advantage in endorsing this program because I have been to several surgeons. I rate the program exceptional, it goes beyond anything I could have ever expected in regard to surgical competence and personal care, it is taken very seriously. If one word desribes my overall feelings it would be WOW! There are no perfect surgeon's BUT there are some that come close because of the attention to detail and the patient, you need to experience this to believe. This is not a paid endorsement (smile)."
About Me
Baltimore, MD
Location
36.8
BMI
RNY
Surgery
03/15/2005
Surgery Date
Nov 13, 2002
Member Since
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