I had this surgery, a roux-en-y, so as you can imagine I found the videos very interesting! (Wonder if somebody recorded my surgery?) Before I had the operatio

I had this surgery, a roux-en-y, so as you can imagine I found the videos very interesting! (Wonder if somebody recorded my surgery?) Before I had the operation I did a lot of research on the internet, but it was difficult to pin down particular surgeons. As the article points out, you can find stats on hospitals, so I went with that. In addition, surgeons can be certified by various boards, so I also used that. Then you can look at complication rates by surgical center -- very important. Finally, you can look at the size of the practice and how many patients they process per year. More is better. Surgeons who do a lot of the same thing for many years with lower complications than average are probably working towards the top of their game. But that was hours and hours of research, and I imagine it all boils down to exactly what this article brings out: skill in the operating theater. (From my experience I think a strong secondary trait is the ability to carefully pre-screen future patients)