I am scheduled for my LapBand on March 31 with Dr. Madan. I like Dr. Madan, I am just a little nervous of the Beverly Hills Surgical Center. Did anyone have there Lapband done there?? Any thoughts or concerns, Any input would be helpful. Thanks

Seems like a lot of people here have gone to him. You aren't having it at a hospital...? a center of excellence?

All i can say is be careful... and do your homework. I am in the So Cal area. My surgeon does not speak highly of 1800 get slim... see a few surgeons before you go any further

After reading the article, I think I would select another surgeon. Yes, I know, articles can skew things a certain way but three patients passing after having surgery done by the same surgeon... I haven't heard of many deaths at all due to lapband and this doctor has had three, that would send up a red flag for me. It sounds like the laparoscopic placement was wrong in one which really scares me.

Whatever you decide, the support group is here for you, and I wish you the best of luck!!

Wher did or are you going? I have insurance approval for the 1-800-get-thin. I am not sure if I can switch easily or if I have to start the process all over. Thanks for any input.

With regard to Dr. Madan,

Dr. Madan has numerous honors and awards. He has been doing general weight loss surgeries since 2002 and Lap-Band specific procedures since 2003. In 2010, Dr. Madan performed over 660 Lap-Band procedures and over 2,000 in his career. Dr. Madan is highly respected by his peers and extremely well liked and appreciated by his patients.

Dr. Madan has even performed the first ever reported case of an extremely complicated procedure of laparoscopic gastric bypass with prior liver transplant. He also has helped revise (orfix) previous bariatric surgery procedures from almost every single practice in the area including most if not all of the local academic institutions.

Un like many other surgeons, Dr. Madan publishes his results in numerous peer-review articles. His resume (curriculum vitae) is nearly 50 pages long. Heauthored the chapters on the technique of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding. He is an editor of “The Handbook of Obesity Surgery” (a book intended to teach all aspects of obesity surgery to both weight loss surgeons in training and current weight loss surgeons) and an editor of the journal,Obesity Surgery, which publishes articles to current weight loss surgeons. Dr. Madan has been asked and continues to be asked to educate surgeons about obesity surgery in national courses.

Dr. Madan IS my Doctor and I could not be happier! I was banded on 12-7-10 at the BH center!

I got mine done there on Jan 28th , by dr gee

I would not go there under any circumstances!!! I read the article you linked to. Dr. Madan is an EXCELLENT surgeon--he performed my surgery on October 6, 2008. HOWEVER, at the time he was the head of bariatric surgery at the University of Miami Hospital/Medical School--that is a Center of Excellence. While I can say with absolute certainty that I do not believe Dr. Madan was at fault for either patient's death--it takes more than an excellent surgeon for a successful surgery. You need an EXCELLENT anesthesiologist, nurses, and facility. My surgery was done at the hospital with a full operating room and with a full ER if there had been a problem. Further, because it was a Center of Excellence I had to go through a full medical screening and clearance--I'm not sure a for-profit surgery mill does this. So the cardiac patient that died may have been due to the anesthesia (which seems likely given cardiac arrest) and the other patient may have had an infection or heart condition (which seems likely given that she had diabetes) that made her unsuitable for surgery in the first place but because this is a for profit surgery center they wouldn't turn her away.

When it was time for my surgery, I was anemic, but was cleared on sleep study, stress test, cardiologist, pulmonologist, etc. and they postponed my surgery until my hemoglobin was higher--they wouldn't do a high risk surgery. They tell people "no". I am not sure this surgery center would and the desperate patients don't care.

What screening did you have to do? How were your results? I would say ONLY do this surgery at a Center of Excellence because you need more than an Excellent surgeon--everything needs to be excellent.

Let's just say I would have my surgery at a hospital. My insurance wouldn't do it anywhere but a center of excellence anyways. If anything goes wrong I'd like to know I'm at a hospital where they can do all they can to fix me, and make sure I'm healthy during recovery. It seems to me from reading the article the complaint is mostly about the surgery center and how it wasn't professional, not the Doctor...

This whole process with ANY surgeon is weird. They are are in it for money, most likely. It's more like plastic surgery, than like getting something done at your doctors office. You want to make sure you feel comfortable, that I would say is #1.