The Bellevue Hospital Weight Loss Surgery Factory
Weight and Healthcare · Ragen Chastain
January 13, 20246m 40s
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Show Notes
Content note: Many of you requested this piece and I think it’s important to talk about, but I also want to let you know that today’s piece might be a tough read. It discusses the lack of care for, and harm done to, higher-weight patients by Bellevue Hospital’s weight loss surgery program. Please take care of yourself.
An expose by the New York Times has revealed that New York’s famed Bellevue Hospital is churning patients through its weight loss surgery program:
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