yes, i don't do bariatric, but a lot of guys here at nyu do if txman can't help you.
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Hi from a Santa Ana, CA nephrologist, who really could hve used your services. I hve 30 some year old with a creatinine of 6 and an identical twin sister with a BSA of ~ 38, and our local transplant centers won't touch the donor. I'm going nuts! 43 years of pounding the beat (the last 14 in my Andial 3.8 conversion) and now hoping to get to station 61 at Zuffenhausen, on 1/12/2011, when my Turbo S is completed.

I'm new around here, and wonder if I shouldn't be talking to OneManTX, so I'll copy and post again.

nice car

This pissed me off. As you know, I do primarily bariatrics, and enough of it to keep busy. I still like to do some general surgery, and am always happy to add a case, etc. I don't have much of a general surgery referral pattern, but a few things come in, and especially when my patients need something I want to do it. Anyway, I'm in my office today signing stuff and there's a note from a GS in town on a guy with an inguinal hernia that he's gonna do. I did the patient's lapband about a year ago, and he just saw one of my nurses for an adjustment - doing great, lost 90lbs. His FP refers him to this other GS for his hernia. Don't tell me neither one knows I do hernias! I know the politics; the FP's Dad is a retired GS that used to assist me until I hired an RNFA, and the GS he apparently refers to is a guy that I was instrumental in permanently kicking out of our call group when his privileges at both hospitals got suspended a while back.
Lame.