Bariatric surgery has become increasingly common. The most commonly used bariatric surgery procedure at academic medical centers in the US is now laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (Esteban Varela and Nguyen, 2015). Roux-en-Y gastric bypass In another bariatric surgery procedure called the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, a small gastric pouch is created and it is directly connected to…