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I'm Dr. Bernard Benedetto and I am the medical director of the bariatric surgical program
here at NSMC. Originally I am from Connecticut, I went to the UConn Medical School, and then
I went to Tufts for my surgical residency. After that I ended up doing a couple of different
fellowships. I did one at the University of Carolina Chapel Hill in surgical critical
care and trauma surgery and I worked at Brown University in academic surgery for a few years
before I decided that my real passion and interest was in minimally invasive surgery
and bariatric surgery so I went back to New York and did a second fellowship in minimally
invasive and bariatric surgery and then I got the opportunity to come up here to NSMC
to join the bariatric team. I went into surgery I think because I really
wanted the opportunity to intervene in patients at a time when they really had a crisis or
a problem that I could go in and fix. I think it's a really rare opportunity to
be able to intervene in such a tangible way in somebody's life. I find that very satisfying.
I went into bariatric surgery for a similar reason. I found that seeing those patients
post operatively after six months or a year or two or three years and just seeing the
looks on their faces and seeing how their lives have changes in ways that they really
had never believed that they would be able to change. I just have come to love doing
that.