Patricia H.
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James A. Sapala
"Here I am 5 years post op and back to the same weight I was before I had the surgery. I still don't eat much, so I don't understand how my stomach grew, but it did. Even though Dr. Sapala assured me that it wasn't possible with his surgery. I have a few new health problems that may be related to the surgery. Now What? Now he's moved too, so who do I get in touch with to find out about what to do about the weight gain?rn"

Detroit Receiving Hospital & University Health Ctr
"Some nurses were extremely pleasant and attentive, doing everything they could to make sure I was comfortable. (Even helped make me feel less self conscious about cleaning places I couldn't reach, and was nice enough to enquire on my husband's comfort too.) Other nurses however were slow, lazy, and unpleasant. (Promised to be right back to refill pain meds and returned two hours later to ask if there was anything wrong. Ignored the light and buzzer of not only my room but others. When my pain meds were refreshed I walked the hallway to find this nurse and saw her engaged in a friendly conversation with another nurse. The topic not being job related. At this time there were other patients with their nurse light lit up, but she ignored them.) I think the rating of a hospital all comes down to the staff of nurses who care for the patients. Nurses should be attentive, pleasant and understanding. Anyone found not to be should be fired. Everyone has a bad day every once in a while, but you should not be a nurse if you cannot handle being paged to do such tedious tasks as is sometimes required. The two nurses I will remember the most were quite opposite, however I will remember the one nurse who was so caring the most. I think if every nurse were like her we'd have patients refusing to go home!"

Kam Tatineni
"I'm not sure if this was his doing or his staff's but I was already his patient and yet when my surgeons office said all he had to do was write a letter saying he thought I would do well with the WLS, they still charged me $200, would not charge my insurance, and all he did was ask me the questions on the survey and use my answers to fill out the paper. Oh, well, at least it's done and I passed."
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Battle Creek, MI
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30.5
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Apr 02, 2002
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