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Title Fat doctor. Series 1, episode 1 / directed by Rebecca Gilhooly
Published London, England : Electric Sky, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (50 min.)
Series Health and society in video
Fat Doctor ; Series 1, Episode 1
Summary 48 year old Gary Buckingham is turning to gastric bypass surgery as a last resort. He's tried and failed to lose weight and at 26 stone, his health is starting to suffer. His biggest fear is that he won't live to see his children grow up. But will Gary go ahead with surgery when he's told on the morning of his operation that he has a 1 in 10 chance of not pulling through? And we meet the man whose life was saved by gastric bypass surgery. At 46st, Ricky Carter was so incapacitated by his size, he had to carry his 8st stomach on a trolley
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 15, 2014)
This edition in English
Subject Morbid obesity.
Gastric bypass.
Obesity, Morbid
Gastric bypass
Morbid obesity
Genre/Form documentary film.
Documentary films
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Tyson, Cathy.
Gilhooly, Rebecca.
Electric Sky (Firm)