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Tue 08 Aug 2008Obesity solution not for everyone
Candidates for gastric banding are very carefully selected, one surgeon explains to Michelle McDonagh
THE SURGICAL treatment of obesity attracted much negative publicity last year when an Irish mother-of-six died after an abandoned gastric banding procedure at a private Dublin clinic. However, for some morbidly obese patients, explains general surgeon Oliver McAnena, surgery may be the only option.
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