CLEVELAND — Dr. Donald Brooks is a physician who's practiced emergency medicine for 22 years. A doctor who is constantly on his feet during some long shifts.
"Even physicians, sometimes we think we're immune to some of the things and we're not, and you caught up with me." After months of meetings virtually, the pair decided on a new, minimally invasive outpatient procedure called endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty. The procedure involves an endoscopist inserting an endoscope with a suturing device through the mouth to reach the stomach. The endoscopist then places sutures in the stomach to decrease the stomach volume and make it smaller.
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