Page 10 - Martin Downs Bulletin - January '24

Page 10, Martin Downs

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Bariatric Surgery … Is It is right for you. The next step is to await clearance from
their insurance company, as well as approval from their
Right For You? primary care physician and any specialists they are seeing.
Our team guides patients through all of the different steps
For people who need to lose weight but have been required to successfully complete the program.
unsuccessful with diet and exercise, bariatric surgery can Question: What Is The Success Rate?
help. Federico Serrot, M.D., FACS, FASMBS, medical Answer: Bariatric surgery has been proven to be the
director of bariatric and metabolic surgery at Cleveland most effective way to lose weight and maintain weight
Clinic Martin Health, and Asadulla Chaudhary, M.D., loss compared to any other treatment. Studies show
FACS, FASMBS, a bariatric surgeon who sees patients patients typically lose the most weight one to two years
at the Cleveland Clinic Family Health Center in Stuart, after bariatric surgery. Patients may lose as much as 60
answer some commonly asked questions about weight- percent of excess weight six months after surgery and
loss surgery. Federico Serrot, M.D. Asadulla Chaudhary, M.D. 77 percent of excess weight as early as 12 months after
Question: What Types Of Bariatric Surgery Are surgery. On average, five years after surgery, patients
Available? over 40. People with a BMI of at least 35 and a weight- maintain 50 percent of their excess weight loss.
Answer: At Cleveland Clinic Martin Health, we related condition, such as diabetes, sleep apnea, high Cleveland Clinic in Florida Martin Health is committed
perform several laparoscopic and robotic-assisted surgical blood pressure or heart disease, are also eligible. All to providing patients with a path to a healthier future. To
procedures including sleeve gastrectomy (gastric sleeve), patients must be committed to following the permanent schedule a weight-loss surgery consultation, call (772)
gastric bypass and duodenal switch. We also perform dietary changes that are required. 223-2890 or visit ClevelandClinicFlorida.org/Bariatric
reoperative bariatric surgery. Question: How Do I Get Started? to learn more.
Question: Who Is A Candidate For Surgery? Answer: Interested patients should schedule a
Answer: You need to have a Body Mass Index (BMI) consultation in order to determine which weight-loss plan
all about KidS

Martin Youth LEADERship encouraging them to never give up, never set goals too Many thanks go to program chair Robert Bruton,
Students Receive Lessons On low, and build upon their successes one layer at a time. assistant public defender and Trisha Green, community
outreach manager of MCSO, who organized the day.
The day concluded with a brief tour of the jail, led
The Law And Fire Safety by a MCSO Deputy. The students learned how inmates For more information about Martin Youth LEADERship,
are brought to and processed at the MCSO jail and saw and how you too might become a sponsor, donor, event
Students from this year’s Martin Youth LEADERship firsthand about the complete lack of rights and privacy coordinator or advisory board member, please see the
class held their monthly session on Dec. 12, Law and one should expect if in jail. They also viewed the pods of group website at: www.leadershipmcalumni.com/youth_
Public Safety Day. the newly renovated wing of the jail, and saw the small leadership.html, or contact Coordinator Jeanne Dunn, at
Students met professionals from the 19th Judicial space in which up to 32 inmates live, sleep, eat, shower MartinYouthLeadership@gmail.com or (772) 486-4695.
Circuit Court of Florida, including State Attorney Tom and cohabitate. Applications for next year’s class are available online.
Bakkedahl, the Honorable Judge Jennifer Waters and
Assistant Public Defender Robert Bruton at the Martin
County Courthouse. The three presented an overview of KidS CorNer
the court system in Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River and
Okeechobee counties. Among the topics of discussion
were the differences between circuit and county courts,
the differences between prison and jail, the types of courts Math Problems Could Spell problem? One cognitive system which is important
available in the 19th circuit (juvenile, dependency, mental for math is visualization. You might have visualized
health, veterans, etc.) and the process from arrest through Dyscalculia the numbers 196 and 27 in your mind as you visually
incarceration. Students were also given solid advice in regrouped and subtracted to solve the equation.
making smart choices during their student years, and how By Jim Forgan, Ph.D., Another important cognitive system is your working
to prepare for the many varied careers in the legal arena. School Psychologist memory. You had to hold 196 and 27 in your working
The students’ morning in court was followed by a visit “If you have $196 memory while you performed the math operation.
to Martin County Fire and Rescue station 23. Students dollars and you spend A third cognitive system important for math
toured the station and the vehicles, learning about life $27, how much money is attention. Regardless of using mental math or
as a firefighter and EMT. They also walked in the cab of do you have left?” If paper, you had to give great attention to detail as
one of the trucks and learned about the many pieces of you are a math whiz you you solved the problem. If you made one careless
equipment our firefighters rely on to assist the residents quickly knew the answer error, it doomed your answer. Language is a fourth
of Martin County. was $169 but perhaps cognitive system involved in math. You had to use
The class continued its education about fire safety at you had to think about language to understand “how much money do you
the Martin County Fire Rescue headquarters. The final it, write it, ask Alexa, or have left” requires subtraction. Math has other
visit of the day was at the Martin County Sheriff’s Office use a calculator before specialized vocabulary words such as sum, radius, and
(MCSO) and Correctional Facility. Students enjoyed knowing the answer. The key here is you knew the hypotenuse. A fifth cognitive system needed for math
a K-9 presentation from “Maverick” and his handler, basics of how to solve the problem. If you did not is processing speed. Your child is often timed on math
Cpl. Ronald Manganiello, while learning how German have technology, you could solve the math problem tests or expected to rapidly know their basic addition,
shepherds are trained to assist officers in tasks vital to by hand. subtraction, or multiplication facts.
law enforcement. Chief Deputy John Budensiek spoke Some children receive adequate math instruction but As you can see, telling your child to “try harder”
to the students as future leaders of their communities, perform poorly in math due to a math learning disability in math might not be the solution. Our testing helps
called dyscalculia. These children might grasp simple math identify which of your child’s cognitive systems are
but struggle with multistep math or math word problems. working well and which ones might be causing a
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