Marketplace

Weight Loss Surgery: Is it Worth the Risk? (45x13)

Air date: Jan 12, 2018

Marketplace reviews one of the most common surgeries, gastric banding, and reveals its success and complication rates, and the cost to public health care of the people who need it fixed. Asha Tomlinson confronts the doctor and the director behind one of the most popular private weight loss clinics and uncovers a trail of victims across the country.