skinnyplease

You have made my point perfectly! Belite is a referral company for YOU and not the surgeons! Belite DOES offer services of surgeons that they can not nor have authority to deliver! By your posting here, I suspect that the "patient comments" you are referring to may be the postings of belite staff! In order to pursue legal against someone for making libelous statements, the statement must be a lie and NOT the truth!

I'm happy you had a good experience with them. I personally would never use them. Joanne is the owner and CEO. She would be the one to look to as the buck stops with her. Why doesn't she tell her patients that they are NOT patients of the surgeon, but in fact they are patients of the hospital and the hospital ultimately picks the surgeon. If someone is fine with that good, but everyone has the right to know!

They put a surgeon that many people have heard of in the forefront. You pick that surgeon to do your surgery. But, they have many more surgeons that are hired to be part of the "team". They might be new, inexperienced and definitely work very cheap! Those are the surgeons doing most of the surgeries. You are asleep and have no idea!

Belite is unethical. They work for the hospital NOT for the surgeon. They will sell you one surgeon and you will get another. You will not even know for sure who really did your surgery. If you book through them, you are NOT booking with the surgeon of your choice. If that's okay with you, then fine. I would never use them! That's only the tip of the iceberg, but that alone is bad enough!

I can't give you any feedback on this surgeon because I did not use him nor do I know anyone that has. All I can say is if you choose this surgeon, DO NOT go through belite weight!

No, not the U.S. Just Mexico Yes you do, and anyone that doesn't chose a dr you recomend is an idiot! You think you know it all. I personnally wouldn't recomend this doctor either, but that's not the point. The point is research and choosing for yourself. Much of the research should be done OFF these boards, because of people like wasa. By the way, I personally wouldn't choose wasa’s dr either. Of course I didn't have that choice because I was banded in 2001 no one had ever even heard of Aceves then!

Jimmyjoe, don't apologize for posting this information. That's what these boards are for. Potential patients have a right to know. Wasa is crucifying you because you posted this person's experience, that's all. It does not help her Quest here. She has her own agenda. Now she claims to have a health history of this person, even more than the person's friends and family! She will now proceed to accuse you of using a fake ID...oh, I see she already has. She doesn't have any special contacts other than the people she works for. She has been asked to share her contacts with us here or provide documentation to validate her statements and she never has. You were not wrong. Wasa is wrong here. For the rest of us, our hearts and prayers go out to the friends and family of this person. Revision surgery is a very technically challenging procedure and should only be done by surgeons with a great deal of experience and expertise in this field. Mainly because of the abundance of scar tissue and risk of bowel perforation, which is what happened in this case. Don't let wasa chase you away. Stay here and share with the rest of us. We appreciate it and can help each other. Also, don’t give up the idea of having surgery or even going to Mexico. Just do extra research and you will find a good surgeon. Many of us have.

So post the links! While you're at it post the link or something in writing showing Allergan's proctors! How about a copy of the surgeon's certificate? It's Belite or BeLiteWeight. They are alive and kicking and pimping your surgeon among others. But I think you already know that! They have a really bad reputation and I personally wouldn't want to be associated with anyone that is associated with them! You turn things around and say that I am trashing this doctor or that doctor. I have said before that whether or not certain surgeons are good or not, is irrelevant. It's the lying that I have a big problem with! A person researching needs to see proof. If a surgeon claims to be a proctor, they have a certificate and should be able to send you a copy. If they are a member of a medical association, they will have a certificate for that too! The ASBS and FACS, etc all issue certificates to their members. You can then find their names on the organization's website. ok, come on wasa. We know you always have to have the last word.

If you like this doctor you should contact his office directly. Regarding Belite...turn around and run!

You have proclaimed yourself to be some kind of expert on the subject of surgeons in Mexico and lap banding in general. Yet when asked to provide proof or sources of your information, you decide "not to play". You have claimed to have inside sources of information about how to check up on Mexican surgeons from the Mexican government, yet you haven't shared that with anyone here. Now you are pushing Dr. Rodriquez too. I find it funny that your doctor and Dr. Rodriquez are being pimped by BeLiteWeight too. You are right about 1 thing, no one should believe anything written on these boards. Including what you write! No one without something to gain spends as much time as you do writing on these and other boards!

So if someone disagrees with you they are advertising? I think you are the one advertising. I didn't say that Rumbaut was the only proctor. I was told by don mills that Rumbaut, Lopez and Ortiz are/were the proctors for them in Mexico. Rodriguez and Aceves are/were not. Allergan has mostly been using Americans to proctor other Americans the last several years and the Mexican drs were mostly used prior to that. He also told me that I shouldn't use that as my only guide. I don't know if Dr. Aceves and Dr. Rodriguez are good lapband surgeons or not, but if they are saying they are proctors for allergan I don't like the deception, By the way, since you are quoting complication stats, I would like to know your stats for complications for Rumbaut and Aceves. I would also like to know how you got those stats.

Do more research?! I called Allergan and they told me that doctor is NOT one of their proctors. Are you saying they are lying or they don't know who their own proctors are?

When I contacted Allergen/Inamed, Dr. Aceves was not on their list of proctors. Dr. Rumbaut was mentioned but not Dr. Aceves. They also did not say anything about sending difficult cases to him either. I'm not saying that makes him a bad surgeon, but if Dr. Aceves is claiming to be something he is not, I don't think that is right!