Fat doctor. Series 1, episode 1
Description
48 year old Gary Buckingham is turning to gastric bypass surgery as a last resort. He's tried and failed to lose weight and at 26 stone, his health is starting to suffer. His biggest fear is that he won't live to see his children grow up. But will Gary go ahead with surgery when he's told on the morning of his operation that he has a 1 in 10 chance of not pulling through? And we meet the man whose life was saved by gastric bypass surgery. At 46st, Ricky Carter was so incapacitated by his size, he had to carry his 8st stomach on a trolley.
Runtime
50 min
Series
Subjects
Genre
Date of Publication
2013
Database
Alexander Street
Direct Link
https://www.remote.uwosh.edu/login?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?HLTH;2113348
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