Diabetes Relapse After Gastric Bypass Surgery

Diabetes is a health issue of staggering proportion in the United States.
I recently spent a few months out of state and, while I was away, I stayed in a residence that is located across from a dialysis clinic. Day after day, ambulances and emergency vehicles would fill the lot, and day after day patients would be drawn from the vehicles, flat on stretchers or seated quietly in wheelchairs. I could see the empty places where legs and feet once were.

I...