Struggles with Obesity
People who are obese face a number of physical, emotional, social, and even professional challenges. In this podcast, we speak with Subhash Kini, MD, who is the Director of the Institute of Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital.
[00:00:00] Stephen Calabria: From the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, this is Road to Resilience, a podcast about facing adversity. I'm your host Stephen Calabria, Mount Sinai's Director of Podcasting.
[00:00:12] On this episode, we welcome Subhash Kini, MD. Dr. Kini is the Director of the Institute of Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, and serves as an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
[00:00:29] In this interview, Dr. Kini discusses the myriad challenges for patients facing obesity, particularly those who choose to undergo surgery to assist in their recovery.
[00:00:39] The physical, psychological, and emotional challenges for those battling obesity requires substantial levels of resilience, and their trials hold many lessons for those who are not. We're honored to have Dr. Subhash Kini on the show.
[00:00:54] Dr. Subhash Kinni, welcome to Road to Resilience.
[00:01:00] Dr. Subhash Kini: Thank you so much, Stephen, for having me on this show.
[00:01:02] Stephen Calabria: Could you share a bit about your background and what led you to specialize in bariatric surgery?
[00:01:08] Dr. Subhash Kini: I trained in general surgery and was very happy with the training I received and the fact that I would be performing general surgery. However, I came across laparoscopic surgery during the early part of my training and fell in love with laparoscopic surgery, since I was able to do the same operations that I was trained in the first few years, but in a minimally invasive manner.
[00:01:33] And when I came to Mount Sinai to do a year's research in bariatric surgery, I knew that what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, and that was to do laparoscopic bariatric surgery.
[00:01:46] Stephen Calabria: What are the most common types of bariatric surgeries and how do they differ?
[00:01:51] Dr. Subhash Kini: The two commonest operations that are being performed now are a sleeve gastrectomy and a gastric bypass.