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Body Contouring:
A Patient's Experience

Sure, she was thrilled to lose 130 pounds. Yet after Jeris Burnell cut her weight in half and significantly improved her health following gastric bypass surgery, she still wasn't quite satisfied. "I was happy to be thin, but had all this extra skin hanging down," the forty-five-year-old pharmacist said.

Burnell's problem is a common lament for patients who achieve major weight loss after a gastric bypass. "You're going to have a lot of sagging skin. It's everywhere on the body since people lose weight everywhere," said Dr. Harold Friedman, professor and chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in the Department of Surgery.

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