(Sorry about the moniker - it came to me as I typed the word ...)
One of the most troubling aspects of this surgery for me is that the vast majority of people who have received it seem to have been lacking in one or another aspect of informed consent. I would like to keep track of this - so please add your story to this thread and explain whether you felt you gave fully informed consent to this procedure or not:
If you would like your information anonymized, please PM me and I will post it myself under a pseudonym for you.
THIS IS IMPORTANT, IMO, because too many of you seem to be surprised by what you got.
Please post whether your surgery was done under a US insurance policy, whether you were approved for a proper DS, and whether you think your insurance would consider it insurance fraud if they knew.
Please ask any SADIsts from other boards to contributed to this poll, even if they don't want to post here.
One of the most troubling aspects of this surgery for me is that the vast majority of people who have received it seem to have been lacking in one or another aspect of informed consent. I would like to keep track of this - so please add your story to this thread and explain whether you felt you gave fully informed consent to this procedure or not:
- No, I woke up and found out the surgeon decided to change procedures intraoperatively and with NO prior discussion whatsoever that I might end up with this procedure (or just did it without telling me)
- No, he said he "might" have to so a somewhat different procedure, but I had no real idea what it was
- No, because he said he was going to do a variation of a DS but told me it was almost the same, only "safer," and did not explain that it was not a DS
- Yes - he explained everything, including that it was an experimental procedure with no long term results yet, and I agreed because (why? e.g., I was afraid of too much malabsorption?)
If you would like your information anonymized, please PM me and I will post it myself under a pseudonym for you.
THIS IS IMPORTANT, IMO, because too many of you seem to be surprised by what you got.
Please post whether your surgery was done under a US insurance policy, whether you were approved for a proper DS, and whether you think your insurance would consider it insurance fraud if they knew.
Please ask any SADIsts from other boards to contributed to this poll, even if they don't want to post here.