I would like to see the medical profession do follow up on those of us who had surgery and were not made better. I sense that the old figures of 1/3 better, 1/3 the same and 1/3 worse are pretty accurate. In my old profession, law, if we had failed 2/3's of the time, we would have been fired. I don't understand how doctors can continue to use the same techniques for 20 years with such horrible results.

My surgeon told me he was improving his surgical results by choosing his patients more carefully. He wanted patients who were more "motivated." As someone with bad surgical results, it was less than helpful to have the surgeon insinuate that the problem was my motivation -- especially when I was referred to as "highly motivated" before surgery.

Kelly