There's a huge difference between a doctor re-doing someone else's mistakes and a doctor re-doing surgery they originally did on a patient that formed adhesions or had a recurrence of symptoms. Doc Brantigan has done re-do's of many other docs TOS surgery including ones done in Denver by other docs. He did a redo on me too to HELP clean up adhesions and it helped a lot. No doc can tell how much will form or not, but not all docs will go back in to help clean it up, but Doc B does because he knows what he is doing. But many times more then not, the more you go back in the more adhesions it causes. But if something is hung up in it then releasing it would help somewhat.

If one has surgery and was screwed up by their doctor the last thing a patient should do is go back for more by the same doc. Often when patients that have had surgery done by another doctor and then go see Doc B because it dodn't work or whatever, the damage may be too much for even him to fix.

Do your homework before having any kind of surgery with any doctor for any reason. If a patient doesn't, especially for specialized conditions like this one, then the patient has to take some of the blame for the outcome. Doing a few surgeries or many of them is a HUGE FIRST CLUE as to the skill of the surgeon. When there are known top docs for TOS like in Denver, and there are a few there to choose from, most insurances WILL ok the patient to go out of the plan to get it done.

Insurance companies would rather have the patient have surgery done by someone who knows what they are doing then to have the patient cost the insurance company more money by having ongoing issues. It just takes a little bit to fight them.

If the outcome of the surgery depends on having a life back to be able to help support a family, one may have to spend a little money getting better care out of state in order to make more later on. It just takes fighting some insurance companies to do it.