Here's some points about "our docs";

No matter whom we choose to see we are either going to like them or not.

If they help us and we do well post op they are great doctors. If they don't help us and we do poorly post-op people rip them apart.

The one thing though that can't happen is going back pre-op to reverse OUR decision to see whom we did, have the surgery we did, and grade our lives on a scale of being successful post op or not.

NO DOC says it is a cure, mine didn't. I did my research and decided who to go too. Yes, the medical books, journals and surveys do let us patients know who is good at what surgery. People need to remember just who picked their docs for them. Let's see, we did, didn't we?

Sometimes the race to get better is clouded by wanting to rush into something with the first doc that agrees with the patient that knows what is wrong with them. After spending countless amounts of time trying to figure what is wrong with them, many patients feel validated and a kin-ship with the first doctor to agree with them.

When these docs don't perform according to our scale of success they get ripped apart by patients all the while not understanding that the patient themselves weren't dragged yelling and screaming into the OR. They signed consent papers. If docs screw up, sue them if you want. But you need to read what malpractice is and you may change your mind. Did you know that if you lose you have to pay the docs lawyers fees? I'm sure many of you do.

Also, these docs DO KNOW of this web site as well as others. They often have their office help scan them on a regular basis. Anything said can be used against a person in a law suit.

People, remember, docs aren't God's. But I don't think one of them go into surgery having made a decision pre-op to ruin a patient.

Sometimes life sucks big time, but you can change that no matter what. Anger that festers like some posts that were made can hurt other family members too and cause emotional stress not only in that person but for their children and spouses.

Fight the good fight, but going at it with anger doesn't get one anywhere.

Just my opinion & I don't care if anyone agrees. I will not reply to any posts made seeing this is only a statment.