If you are in America and grumbling about your insurance company's requirement to do a three or six month weight loss program before surgery, it may help you to know this information.
In the metro Vancouver area and Vancouver Island, including Victoria, there is a population of about 3.2 million people. To the best of my knowledge there are only two surgeons doing gastric bypass and sleeve surgeries. Government health care pays for the surgery, but has limited the surgeons to a total of 52 surgeries PER YEAR. A gastric bypass up here who is about 18 months…
