Tomorrow I head out for Doha again. Not for another round of Doha talks but to slowly chip at their enormous obesity and Diabetes case load. Before I leave I want to leave you all with this paper that shows great results with the Laparoscopic Sleeve resection and for the treatment of Type II Diabetes.

http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/763098

There are now critics from the medical community who do not see surgery as the mainline treatment for obese diabetics. They are concerned about the high cost and they claim that lifestyle change and weight loss is the key.

We have know this for a century but we should now realise that solutions based on behavorial control are almost impossible to achieve or take a long time. Meantime the terrible compications of Diabetes will take its toll. The critics do not take into account the Billions of dollars spent every year on doctor's visit, medications, and the treatment of complications and coutless investigations.

When we have a one shot solution we should take it.