This could be easier, call the Ark. press or check Ark. blogs, they would know if it were gradual, downtime, exercise rituals in the duration, excess skin, how he eats, etc.
Ali, if you read Plutarch’s post, he states that the gastric bypass surgery rumors having been swirling around Arkansas for some time. Also, he mentions the HIPAA privacy laws which prohibit conversations about medical records. Violating these HIPPA laws can lead to stiff penalties. Thus, Huckabee would have to voluntarily agree to provide access to his medical records if he is telling the truth about his weight loss and wishes to put this compelling circumstantial case to rest. Better yet, he could have the barium swallow test that would confirm a normal sized stomach.
Still, some may doubt that Huckabee could have had surgery without the news getting "out." If unsourced rumors are the criterion, it is "out." There is no particular shortage of usually anonymous internet posts and blogs that purport in Arkansas it is “generally known” Huckabee had gastric bypass surgery, or that it is known at which hospital or by which surgeon it was performed. Examples of these posts may be seen here, here, here, and here.
If Huckabee himself kept his surgery secret, a substantiated disclosure would require a health care professional to identify him or herself while violating both medical ethics and Federal laws. It is thus not surprising that there are no identified witnesses. Should Huckabee should become the GOP nominee, however, the entire MSM and Democrat apparatus will available to reward and protect anyone who “steps forward”.
That was a quote from Plutarch’s article.
All else being equal, a repair of a post bariatric incisional hernia is thus 2,500 times more likely than a nonbariatric Spigelian hernia.
The particulars of Huckabee's operation provide further bariatric surgery connections. The Baptist Health Hospital at which the Spigelian hernia repair was performed is Arkansas’ only Bariatric Center of Excellence, and was performed by a surgeon whose partner is a leading Arkansas bariatric surgeon.