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Archive > May, 2004 Vol. V, No. 5

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Surgical Weight Loss
23-Hour Gastric Bypass the Shape of Things to Come?
Outpatient gastric bypass? Morbidly obese patients going home in 23 hours? What not long ago was pretty much unheard of may be the shape of things to come, says Todd McCarty, MD, medical director of the Weight Loss Surgery Program at Baylor University Medical Center.

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