Video Website powered by Einstein IndustriesWestern Bariatric, AMC Douglas M. Krahn, M.D., F.A.C.S.

RAQUEL: My name is Raquel and I went down to Tijuana and I wanted a Lap-band done. In Tijuana is only $1,000. So, you know, they - - you in but you don’t have a follow up—you just don’t get that doctor thing. And unfortunately my band slipped and I—I almost died. At the hospital where I was at, they didn’t know what to do for me. And my husband told the doctor that was treating me, “if they don’t do something for my wife tonight, my wife is going to die.” Dr. Conn agreed to see me. He looked at me and—and he said, “this is a patient I have to look at.” He told me husband, “you have to trust me. I’m taking her in right now. I have to do emergency surgery or she’s not going to make it.”

The only thing that mattered to me when I got there is, “please, don’t let me die. I’m a mom.” I had a twelve year old and a fifteen year old. They’re my entire live. And—he got me through. He—my kids said, “mom, when you came out, if the nurses weren’t doing what he was wanting them to do, he took over and--”, he saved my life.