I was just wondering if anyone else here had Dr. Urschel from baylor in Dallas and if you did what was your experience.

He actually performed my surgery 10 years ago, he was starting to retire and I think he quit shortly after my surgeries. I now know that he invented many of the tools used in the surgery. He did a really good job on my back, I didn't have any complications from the surgery. He was not a big talker that I remember, but one of the few things he said to me after surgery was "how was you working like that"! (I was working as a home health nurse). I was in agony, but when I woke up I already felt so much better. I had a cervical rib that was just smashing one of my major nerves. I was just so thankful to him because I just couldn't take that kind of pain for much longer. So even though I had new pain from the surgery it was nothing like the nerve smashing pain.

The last time I saw him I was walking out of the room and I turned back to him and said "so who is going to fix your extra ribs"?? ....he just laughed and said "I have enough room for them to fit, but you are just a tiny thing"......I feel so lucky to have been one of his patients.

I have been reading stories here and am just so angry at how people are being treated by these "new doctors". If it is not bad enough to ever have to feel the pain of TOS ...then be treated like a number after the surgery. Some of these new doctors won't even help with problems or complications! OMG....I just think this is a atrocity! Some patients do have breathing problems after surgery and need oxygen therapy, that is just one of the many complications that can happen. It is the surgeons JOB to help the patient and make sure they have what they need, like OXYGEN THERAPY! I read where someone had to go to a lung doctor trying to get help. WHAT!!!! That should not have happened to her. That doctor was supposed to have helped her with any breathing problems following surgery, she needed oxygen assistance so she could sleep.

I have also read many other people talking about how they are treated by these new doctors and I am just so shocked. I just had my surgeries 10 years ago, so it has not been 100 years ago!

PEOPLE WHO HAVE TOS DO NOT DESERVE TO BE TREATED BAD! Nobody who has TOS wants to have it just to get off work. It is a very painful condition and these doctors need to remember that!

sorry about rant, I just am so mad right now after reading how some of you are being treated.