Annhere-Please remember all i have told you about Dr. Avery is true and did happen. If he is your potential surgeon--please run away fast is my recommendation.

To Dophenese?? sorry I may have gotten name wrong. Did you have TOS surgery when your phrenic nerve was cut--or thyroid surgery? I'm so sorry for you as well. I am being blacklisted in my town and can't get the help I need even to breath at night. I don't believe my nerve is cut--but paralyzed for a long time and now off and on--but not full strenght.
I wonder how many doctors would murder a patient to avoid a scandal?? HOw many??? I'm not even a scandal--just poor now and badly surgically damaged, and getting worse? But they avoid me like the plague.
I am being medically murdered via neglect in Santa Rosa, CA. And it isn't like I don't want some help to lessen my suffering. I try--and they refuse. Times have changed folks in our medical system. It has become extremely corrupt.
You can't sue in California because of the cap on malpractice -pain and suffering.
Few attorney in California even do malpractice anymore unless you start out rich and lose your high paying career and find your own expert witness. And you can't sue if you can't breathe as sit up for long, or are in too much pain. We are amidst men who will murder patients today--including HMOs...medical schools no longer impresse or even require swearing in with the Hippocratic Oath. Times have changed and all that counts today is making Money in Private Practice, and SAVING money in HMOs. We are in difficult times as patients. Try to avoid any surgery that might make you worse is my only recommendation for the time. Best, Triste