Welcome to the Angels Abroad. The best affordable solution for obesity!
We help our obese patients to make medical trips and we give them the best solution: Dr. Rodrigo Gonzalez, a U.S. board certified bariatric surgeon, his also U.S. board certified Multidisciplinary Bariatric Team and a follow-up team in USA.
We help our patients to communicate directly with Dr. Gonzalez. He will answer our patients’ questions and doubts promptly via a call conference (free of charge) or e-mails. We also provide our patients with Dr. Gonzalez’s CV and Las Americas Hospital pictures, so they can know more about our surgeon’s background and where will they have surgery.
Las American Hospital
At Las Americas Hospital you will find state of the art medical equipment and luxurious suites where you will recover the way you deserve.
Our professional personnel had been trained to offer you service with excellence.
Address:1a. calle "D" 7-33 zona 17 colonia Lourdes Guatemala City, Guatemala 01017
City:Guatemala City
Country:Guatemala
Contact Number:+502 4326 1908
Fax No:N.A
Email address:angels.abroad@hotmail.com
Website:http://www.angelsabroad.com/
Number of Doctors:N.A
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Languages:English
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Dr. Rodrigo Gonzalez Toledo, MD
After finishing his General Surgery Residency training, Dr. Gonzalez traveled to the University of Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France, where he completed a two-year fellowship-training program in Gastrointestinal and Hepato-Biliary Surgery. He started his gastric banding surgery experience with the Sweedish Adjustable Gastric Band.
Afterwards, he joined the Advanced Laparoscopic Fellowship training program for two years at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA where he was first exposed to the laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedure.
Finally, he completed a one-year Laparoscopic Gastrointestinal & Bariatric Surgery Fellowship training program at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, USA where he performed over 400 bariatric operations that year alone, including gastric bypass, LapBand, sleeve gastrectomies and revisional surgeries (converting failed or complicated bariatric operations to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass).
During the last 8 years, Dr. Gonzalez has completed hundreds of bariatric operations in 3 different countries (France, the United States, and Guatemala). These operations include gastric banding, sleeve gastrectomy, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, and revisional bariatric operations.
Since his return to Guatemala, Dr. Gonzalez has dedicated most of his practice to bariatric surgery. He is actively involved in research, teaching, and publishing his experience in international medical journals.
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Mrs. Margaret Mckenzie, a nurse from Grass Valley, California, made a trip to Guatemala. She contacted a company named, Angels Abroad, and through them, contacted Dr. Rodrigo Gonzalez Toledo, a bariatric surgeon trained in the US. She had an open gastric bypass on September 6th 2008, at Las Americas Hospital in Guatemala city.
What is interesting about this story is that, Mrs. Mckenzie has a health insurance, and they can cover a gastric bypass. The problem is that she didn't had enough money to pay a co-payment and deductible. Co-payment was US $24,000.
It was cheaper to pay an air ticket to go to Guatemala, plus, ground transportation, cell phone, concierge service, meals, hotel, all medical expenses including 4 nights at a 5-star hospital, nurse service, a tour to a tourist attraction and she paid for her companion expenses. All these was less expensive than using her own health insurance. She saved US $10,000.
Due to her weight loss, Mrs. Mckenzie is going to be able to have a better life.
With tears in her eyes, she told that if she had surgery in the US, she probably had to mortgage, for second time, her house. This is a reality americans are considering, to travel abroad to have invasive surgeries, not just cosmetic. Though it is a hard decision to travel to a called "third world country", and find physicians trained in the US, using state of the art technology, it is becoming necessary, for americans to survive and not loose all of their money in the process.
Angels Abroad all-inclusive packages include: