At Sat, 30 Aug 2008, IAS Admin wrote:
>
>From: adhesions@adhesions.org [mailto:adhesions@adhesions.org] On Behalf Of
>carynlruzich@comcast.net
>Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:13 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
>Subject: Re: Incompetent surgeons in Washington state
>
>I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there's incompetent surgeons
>everywhere.
>
>It's a sad truth. I live in a suburb of Detroit and we used to have some
>pretty good doctors and hospitals; and I believe they're still out there
>somewhere but there's way too much of what you describe going on here in
>Michigan too.
>
>I don't know what's going on with doctors and hospitals these days, but
they
>all seem to be more interested in doing what they do well and not trying to
>do anything else.
>
>If it's difficult or risky, they don't want to bother. Most times you feel
>as if you're crazy. I am so frustrated with the medical community these
>days, I can't even tell you!
>
>What you describe is not uncommon. Adhesion surgery is difficult.
>Extremely difficult. And if your surgeon didn't feel that he could do the
>job, well, count your lucky stars that he didn't try. I've had numerous
>surgeons over 30 years and one almost killed me by his incompetence. He
got
>in way over his head (and skill level) and caused me to have an ileus which
>he didn't even know was a possibility. Then, when I had my hysterectomy 7
>years ago, when my gyn got a look at all my adhesions he called in the
>on-call general surgeon to take down the adhesions and the general surgeon
>refused. Not wanting to have to open me up again, my gyno called in the
>colorectal surgeon on-call and he took down the adhesions. Both told me it
>was the most adhesions they had ever seen. The colorectal surgeon said he
>had seen someone with almost as many adhesions as I had, but in his words,
"
>I took the cake".
>
>I realize it's a huge inconvenience, but this damn disorder is a huge
>inconvenience. It never ends. I feel for you, please don't get me wrong.
>We, as sufferers, are simply not being heard. And I honestly feel that the
>medical community is trying to keep this disorder a great big secret.
>
>A secret, adhesions are not. I am 47 years old and my mother had adhesion
>problems in the 1960's. It's not new and I think the medical community
>should be ashammed of themselves for not addressing this horrendous side
>effect of any surgery. I had small gland in my neck removed last year and
I
>can feel the adhesions in my neck!
>
>I have been steaming about this since I had my last adhesion surgery in
>May. I was suffering within weeks, again. I'm an intelligent woman who
has
>done a lot of homework about adhesions outside of the hospital. Add in 30
>years of doctors and hospitals and I'm fit to be tied!
>
>I mad as hell that doctors continued to operate knowing full well that
>adhesions are an extremely likely side effect. Yet, no one talks about
it.
>And when you tell a doctor you have adhesions, their eyes glaze over and
>they say something like, oh, we don't fix those cause they only come back.
>
>REALLY! So my question is when are they going to make a real effort to
>change that? 40, 50 years not enough time??? What exactly is it going to
>take for them to start paying more attention to adhesions????
>
>I know it has to be costing millions and millions of dollars every year in
>health care dollars. You'd think someone somewhere would want to do
>something about adhesions. I just wished I knew who. I've thought about
>starting a campaign of some sort, but my big question is who is going to
>listen? Who really cares about this? If someone has the answer, please
>share.
>
>Caryn R
>
>
>>>-------------- Original message --------------
>From: "IAS Admin (Tracy)" <tracy.joslin@adhesions.org>
>
>> Sender: mrsde06@comcast.net (Julie DeStefano)
>> Subject: Incompetent surgeons in Washington state
>>
>> I never thought this was ever possible let alone that it would happen to
>> me and I am thankful that I am not alone it all this. People do think I
>> am crazy or making it up when I talk about the pain I feel on a daily
>> basis.
>>
>> I had a C-Section in 1992, and two natural births after that. So it has
>> been 16 years that they have been growing. I am now 38, I had been
>> having what felt like menstral cramps since May of 2008. The first
>> doctor I went to did a pelvic exam, said I dont see anything or feel
>> anything that would be causing your pain. I wanted to kick him in his
>> hea d when he was down there. He ordered a CT Scan and said I needed a
>> second opinion. I went to another dr and a he ordered an ultra sound
>> with out performing any exam, and found out I had cysts and masses on
>> both of my ovaries and decided that they needed to come out. I was just
>> going to have my tubes tied at the same time, since we decided not to
>> have any more kids and my uterus cauterized to help with my menstral
>> cycles.
>>
>> I scheduled 2 weeks off work and went in for the laproscopy, July 23rd.
>> Dr. said it should be a piece of cake, the cysts might take a little
>> longer but there shouldnt be any problems. I went under and then I woke
>> from surgery to find out my doctor went in with the scope and found that
>> I had adhesions. He tied the tubes, closed incision and did the
>> cauterizing and left me with the cysts inside.
>>
>> He told my husband I had to have a hyst erectomy and walked away. I went
>> to the hospital 4 days later to get a copy of my consent form to
>> understand why he just didnt do the hysterectomy while I was under the
>> anesthesia the first time. (I wanted to make sure the form gave him the
>> right to do that). They gave me a copy of the dr's notes and that is
>> how I found out I had adhesions. It has been 1-1/2 weeks since the
>> laproscopy and the doctor still has not called to say anything to me
>> about it. Now I am going to have to be put to sleep again, take even
>> more time off work and go thru all that pain again. I am still having
>> pain in my left side and work is going to be worse now since I have so
>> much lifting to do and where he did the laproscopy gets irritated so
>> easily.
>>
>> I am going to the hospital to confront the administrators regarding this
>> crap. I am so irritated that he didnt take care of it all while he had
>> me under. It showed how incompetent he was as a doctor before he cut me
>> open and had I known anything about him like this, he wouldnt have layed
>> one hand on me. In one way I am thankful that if he didnt know what he
>> was doing he didnt just start hacking and screw things up but he should
>> have the education to know that this could have been a possible
>> scenario.
>>
>> I too live in Washington state (Spanaway) and am looking for a doctor
>> with Group Health to perform the new surgery. So please email me if you
>> know of one.
>>