KURI PATIENTS IN THE NEWS
“My surgical team and I are committed to your success and we’re here to support you before, during and after surgery.”
- Dr. Pedro Kuri
Obesity is a serious disease affecting millions of people around the world. It is often associated with other life-threatening conditions such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and heart-related illnesses that can be improved with sufficient weight loss.
CBS13 Investigates: Surgery South of the Border
Source: CBS13 Sacremento
Kristen Dos Reis was an overweight kid.”I’ve struggled with it my whole life,” she says. “It’s been years of yo-yoing and this seemed like a possibility.” That possibility for the twenty-seven year old was lapband surgery, but without medical insurance, U.S. doctors told the Lodi woman that the procedure would cost $16,000. That didn’t include several added “fees”.
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Source: CBS13 Sacremento
Kristen Dos Reis was an overweight kid.”I’ve struggled with it my whole life,” she says. “It’s been years of yo-yoing and this seemed like a possibility.” That possibility for the twenty-seven year old was lapband surgery, but without medical insurance, U.S. doctors told the Lodi woman that the procedure would cost $16,000. That didn’t include several added “fees”.
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Lap Band Surgery Helps Bremerton Girl Be ‘The Kid I Want To Be’
Source: Kitsap Sun
Seventh grade can be hard on a kid. There’s battles with self-confidence, puberty, popularity, acne, growth spurts, sexual awareness, drugs, drinking, grades. The list of horrors goes on. When Marsha Siperek of Bremerton thought about her 12-year-old daughter, Hannah, she knew that beside all the usual teen angst, Hannah would have a strike against her because she was morbidly obese.
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Source: Kitsap Sun
Seventh grade can be hard on a kid. There’s battles with self-confidence, puberty, popularity, acne, growth spurts, sexual awareness, drugs, drinking, grades. The list of horrors goes on. When Marsha Siperek of Bremerton thought about her 12-year-old daughter, Hannah, she knew that beside all the usual teen angst, Hannah would have a strike against her because she was morbidly obese.
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The Incredible Shrinking Woman
Source: San Diego Magazine
…Most women do not care to reveal their weight, especially if the prefix “over” applies. And most women who aren’t 6 feet 4 inches tall would be dismayed to weigh close to 200 pounds. I’m 5 feet 8 but proud to tell the world I weigh 197. It’s so much better than 333. I’m also proud to say I did it “the easy way,” an odd accusation often leveled at those who choose weight-loss surgery—as if there…
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Source: San Diego Magazine
…Most women do not care to reveal their weight, especially if the prefix “over” applies. And most women who aren’t 6 feet 4 inches tall would be dismayed to weigh close to 200 pounds. I’m 5 feet 8 but proud to tell the world I weigh 197. It’s so much better than 333. I’m also proud to say I did it “the easy way,” an odd accusation often leveled at those who choose weight-loss surgery—as if there…
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Losing Weight? Some Tried Surgery — in Mexico
Source: San Diego Magazine
Susan Fuller has tried every diet under the sun — the healthy and unhealthy ones, she says — in her 15-year struggle to lose weight.
But Susan says that she remained at least 90 pounds overweight — and decided to take a more drastic step: going out of the country for the surgery she didn’t want to wait for at home.
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Source: San Diego Magazine
Susan Fuller has tried every diet under the sun — the healthy and unhealthy ones, she says — in her 15-year struggle to lose weight.
But Susan says that she remained at least 90 pounds overweight — and decided to take a more drastic step: going out of the country for the surgery she didn’t want to wait for at home.
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