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I'm currently in Antalya, Turkey, presenting at the 3rd National Congress of Morbid Obesity and Metabolic Surgery.  It's certainly quite an honour, given the sheer level of expertise and surgical skill presented by other presenters and delegates.  What is clear from the presentations and conversations I have had with various surgeons is the degree of dedication that these doctors have for their patients.  Patients for whom all other avenues of help have failed and whom for various reasons, are unable to change their own eating habits.

Clearly there is no one definitive solution but conferences such as this one are designed for experts from different fields to pool their knowledge in the spirit of lively debate and sharing resources in order to create advancements in the field.

Having an extensive nursing background in a number of clinical areas and attending events such as these, I am someetimes left me wondering about the behaviour of so many of my peers in the NLP and hypnotherapy arena who are so apt to criticise the medical professions for not knowing about NLP and hypnosis.

Whilst I had a very good turnout of surgeons for my presentation, what is regretable is the absense of any NLP and hypnotherapy practitioners from this and other such conferences I have attended.

To the question of, "Why don't doctors learn NLP?" all I can really answer is, "Why don't NLP practitioners learn medicine?"