Gastric Bypass Surgery Hamilton, Ontario

Gastric Bypass Surgery Hamilton, Ontario

You've tried dieting, and you've tried exercise, but you can't seem to lose weight. Sometimes the diets work short term, but the weight always comes back. If you are more than 100 pounds over your ideal body weight, or you have a body mass index, or BMI, of over 35 kg/m2, you may be a candidate for Gastric Bypass Surgery. However, for many people in the Hamilton, Ontario area, the wait can be up to 5 years. Dr. Elliot Goodman can make the treatment you need available in 3-4 months.

For someone who is obese, 5 years may be too long. Obesity is associated with heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, sleep apnea, arthritis, and many types of cancer. Too often, diet and exercise aren't enough to lose the weight. Gastric bypass surgery offers a solution. With this revolutionary surgical procedure, doctors can actually make the stomach smaller, so that patients may become full more quickly. This causes patients to eat much less than they normally would, and allows them to lose weight.

Dr. Goodman offers a unique service to Canadians, allowing them to cut their wait time from 5 years to under 3 months. He does this by providing his services in the United States. Canadians may apply for medical treatment outside of the country in order to circumvent long waiting periods if it can be shown that a delay in treatment will be detrimental.

Morbid Obesity is associated with:

- diabetes
- hypertension
- heart disease
- colon cancer
- breast cancer
- uterine cancer
- cervical cancer
- gallbladder cancer
- prostate cancer
- rectal cancer
- degenerative arthritis
- sleep apnea
- depression
- pulmonary hypertension

After finishing College and Medical School at Cambridge University in England, Dr. Goodman came to the United States for training in General Surgery at Maimonides Medical Center in New York. He then finished a Fellowship at Columbia University, focusing on cellular immunology. Since then, he has Co-Directed the University Institute for Surgery of Morbid Obesity, and spent time on the faculty at New Jersey Medical School. He then served as a faculty member at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine, and worked at Montefiore Medical Center. He has been at Beth Israel in New York City since 2004.

If you are in the Hamilton, Ontario area and you are interested in gastric bypass surgery, you may not have to wait 5 years. Call Dr. Goodman for a consultation today!