A bariatric surgeon takes on malpractice on his own terms:
“To be perfectly blunt, I don’t believe that it’s my responsibility to make my patients rich if there should be an adverse occurrence,” Fallang said. “My responsibility is to take the best medical care of them that I know how.”
“No one can do surgery with zero complications, it’s just not physically possible,” he said. “Medical malpractice lawsuits, 95 percent of the time, are about money, they’re not about malpractice.





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