I started my research by looking up which hospitals and doctors accept Aetna. I found an Aetna Bariatric Center of Excellence within a few miles of my house. I googled each bariatric doctor in my list, looked at their websites, watched some of their youtube videos and researched their credentials. I found a doctor who I liked, my appointment went well, the staff was very nice and they've been very organized. The doctor assured me he's done "thousands" of these SVG surgeries. He's also been rated as one of "NJ's Top Doctors" for the past 8 years in a row. Everything sounds good at this point. But still, I do wish I could find an independent source that could confirm the total number of successful surgeries this doctor has performed as well as any not so successful surgeries.

Can anyone provide some direction as to how I could find those statistics? Any reviews online are quite arbitrary and there are not too many of them.

Thanks!

I did the same, Google, different referral sites, ex. RateMD, also joined realself.com, good info there.

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If you check the OH boards, they have patient reviews of the various docs used. www.obesityhelp.com is the site.

I first found my doctor by recommendation from my primary care doctor. Since I value her opinion, that was a good start. She also had two people on her staff who had surgery with this doctor who were very successful. Then I went from there and just searched and searched. Looked at all the health sites who had patient reviews. Everything looked good and at one the meetings there were a lot of people from out of state coming to see him so they must believe he is good as well.