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Originally Posted by Bander Dr.Collier is not even Board Certified!!! Unless he recently passed the exam. Scarry right. He is fully allowed to do surgery though. There should be a rule against that! |
Certification by specialty boards
can indicate a certain level of expertise, but the lack of certification does not indicate the converse. It's just one tool by which we can gather information about a doctor.
Dr. Collier has an excellent reputation; he's practiced surgery for 34 years, 20+ of those in Texas. He's done bariatric surgery since 1989, laparascopically since it was first available; he
is certified in these techniques. There has been no action against his license, which is really quite remarkable in this day and age.
I dont have any affiliation with him (I don't even live in Texas any more--and never practiced nursing in any hospital where he had privileges)--but just wanted to remind people that credentials don't tell the whole story.