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Health Watch: Bariatric Surgery
After a year in which the Medical Center at Princeton
welcomed a new president and CEO (Barry S. Rabner), changed its name
(to the University Medical Center at Princeton, part of the Princeton
HealthCare System), and announced it was looking to move to a larger
and more accessible location (could it be a chunk of the Sarnoff land
on Route 1? — see Richard K. Rein’s column on page 51), the healthcare
provider last week made a little medical news.
Princeton Healthcare System announced that it was opening a bariatric
surgery program at the medical center, “the first of its kind
in Mercer County,” according to the press announcement.
Bariatric surgery is aimed at curing morbid obesity in those who have
unsuccessfully tried such non-surgical options as diets and exercise
programs. The program of the University Medical Center at Princeton
will be headed by Robert E. Brolin M.D., above left, assisted by David
S. Tichansky M.D. at right, who are partners in New Jersey Bariatrics
at 4250 Route 1 North in Monmouth Junction (732-274-3434, www.njbariatricspc.com).
The American Society of Bariatric Surgery, of which Brolin is a past
president, describes two different approaches to weight-loss surgery,
according to the press release: “Restrictive procedures in which
a smaller upper stomach pouch is created, and malabsorptive procedures
in which the digestion process is altered. Most patients can expect
a hospital stay of two to four days for a laparoscopic procedure and
three to five days for an open procedure. Most patients return to
work and all levels of pre-surgery activity within three to six weeks.”
Brolin, a 1970 alumnus of Depauw University, earned his M.D. at University
of Michigan and has taught at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center
and at Rutgers. Tichansky was a mechanical engineering major at Lafayette,
Class of 1989, and earned his M.D. at the University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey. According to the doctors’ website, Brolin
has performed more than 2,000 weight loss operations and Tichansky
has performed more than 125 laparoscopic operations in the past yea
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