This news story ran in BC, Canada earlier this week. A lady came back to Canada after VGS surgery in Mexico, with a leak and a sliced spleen. The story does not specifically name the surgeon she had, but they show the receipt she got from the clinic she used, which was "Bariaticenter" in Tijuana. You can figure out who the surgeon was from there.

http://globalnews.ca/video/1569692/mexico-surgery-warning

The lady sounds a bit nutsy, but even so, she didn't pay for this.

I am still going to Mexico next week for my VGS surgery, but not to this clinic. This video is a bit of fear mongering I think, but obviously, this lady had a very bad experience.

Research, research, research!

Edited September 19, 201411 yr by lovelyme

I think the most important thing is that if your Doctor denies any complications from leaks for his patients when you know thats not true - that ought to be the real red flag. All surgeons will have patients encounter complications from time to time, but the surgeons that lie about it are the ones that you ought to be wary of the most.

Can you please clarify which Facebook link that indicates Dr. Garcia? Could you possibly paste the link Here?

this is the website I found that makes me believe doctor garcia is who they are talking about http://tijuanabariatriccenter.com/ the website the other person gave is a mexican website that is in spanish but it could be either idk

Here is another story on Global News about another woman from BC complaining of a leak after gastric sleeve surgery with Dr. Almanza.

http://globalnews.ca/news/1581936/north-van-woman-still-recovering-after-gastric-sleeve-surgery-in-mexico/

If there wasn't a 3.5 year wait list to get the surgery in BC on the public health care system, people wouldn't be paying to have it done elsewhere.

So what surgeon was it?? :/

And the surgeon was not Dr. Garcia...

So what surgeon was it?? :/

It was Almanza.

Over the years that I have been researching, I have read MANY terrible stories on this Dr.... not saying they were true, because I don't know. But it was enough for me to not want to go to him!