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Dr. Schroder was born and raised in Richmond, Va. He was first introduced to medicine as a teenager when he babysat for the family of a local doctor-in-training. Later, when he was in medical school, he fell in love with surgery because he enjoyed the hands-on work and immediate results. "Surgery is kind of like instant gratification - I can help patients get better quickly," he says.
The surgical program he trained in had many pioneers in weight loss surgery, and he followed in their footsteps. After a time, though, he decided to move away from the field. "I said I'd never do a weight loss operation again because there were so many complications," he says. But it wasn't long before he changed his mind. "The field has advanced so much, and the technology is so much better than it was 20 years ago," he says. "Bariatric surgery today is much safer, and our patients have excellent outcomes."
