Both the editor of the BMJ and a former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine have criticised this heavy-handed approach.

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Developed to remove arsenic from soldiers gassed during World War I, the method is used in mainstream medicine for rare cases of acute heavy metal poisoning.

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Gastric bypass is a form of bariatric surgery--from the Greek barys (heavy)--which was on the fringes of medicine just a decade ago but has now gone mainstream with a vengeance.

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