[Fat doctor]. Daniel Simmons / directed by Rebecca Gilhooly.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Tyson, Cathy., Narrator.

Gilhooly, Rebecca., Director, Producer.

Electric Sky (Firm), Producer.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morbid obesity.

Gastric bypass.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (50 min.).

Place of Publication:

London, England : Electric Sky, 2013.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

Summary:

Daniel Simmons is 31 years old and at 40 stone, he is super morbidly obese. Daniel lives with his mother in an upper story flat. It takes him at least 20 minutes to get down the stairs. His case is so extreme that he hasn't been out of the house socially in 12 years. He only leaves home for hospital appointments. Daniel has already suffered three heart failures and has been told that unless he has the operation he has only two years to live. Equally he's been warned that his health is so poor that he might not survive the operation. And for Daniel it is major surgery. Not only is he going to have his stomach stapled and part of his intestine by passed, but the surgeon is also going to remove seven stone of fat from Daniel's stomach in a very rare procedure. This episode follows Daniel in the months leading up to surgery. It is a moving film that ends tragically with Daniel's death days after the operation.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 15, 2014).

OCLC:

881549748