JG, unfortunalely ive known of a few people who fought post-op staph infections subsequent to surgery a year or so before dying, so thats one of my main concers. Hospital aquired staph is often very serious as it is antibiotic resistant (mrsa). I'd really want to know about the risk of such along with the surgeons skill.
What bothers me is i have some pts who did great with a particular surgeon and others who had pure misery from the same guy.
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Again, do your homework with respect to the surgeon that you choose. The guy that did mine doesn't use any of the downtown hospitals in Tucson--he does all his surgery out at Oro Valley, which is without a doubt the best run hospital that I have ever been in. The only other surgeon that I would have considered uses a Tucson hospital where I had some neurosurgery performed several years ago, and I would not willingly go back there. This was not the deciding factor, but it was important to me.
