American doctor travels to Min-Sheng to observe latest weight loss surgery techniques

Min-Sheng General Hospital’s Bariatric Surgery Center has for a while now attracted patients from abroad for weight loss surgery performed by the most experienced team in Asia, and at competitive prices. Its reputation for excellence also attracts surgeons from across Asia, and even America, who want to gain first hand knowledge and experience of the latest cutting edge techniques used at Min-Sheng.

Dr. Steven Fowler from Aloha Surgeries in Hawaii, USA, is one of the most experienced specialists for gastric banding and gastric bypass in that state; he recently came to Taiwan to observe Professor Lee Wei-Jei perform Roux-en-Y bypasses using the two-entry-ports techniques. Although by-pass surgery using one, two or three entry ports is routinely performed at Min-Sheng General Hospital, doctors in America still mostly use the 5-entry-ports technique. Dr. Fowler is keen to introduce the two-entry-ports technique at his hospital and traveled from Hawaii to gain the necessary experience.

Although the techniques is not applicable to all patients, the reduced number of surgical wounds offers advantages both cosmetic and in pain management.