I have heard that Dr. Andrew Cook in Los Gatos, California, operates on patients with adhesions. I believe his primary surgical expertise is operating to clean up endo. If anyone has had adhesion surgery with Dr. Cook, we would appreciate hearing from you. I have had horrific adhesion since a botched laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy in 2004. I have been hospitalized twice for bowel blockages, but have not had another surgery. So, if you have any information of Dr. Cook in California, please email. Thank you. Sally
--- On Thu, 12/31/09, IAS Admin (Tracy) <tracy.joslin@adhesions.org> wrote:
From: IAS Admin (Tracy) <tracy.joslin@adhesions.org> Subject: Dr. Semertzides, Dr. Gerhart, etc. To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS" <adhesions@mail.obgyn.net> Date: Thursday, December 31, 2009, 3:18 PM From: Fern777Hill@Yahoo.com (Fern) Subject: Re: Dr. Semertzides, Dr. Gerhart, etc.
Here is my follow-up
I spoke to a secretary for Dr. Semertzides and if you send all of your information he can review them and then you can have a telephone consult for $200. I am not sure if this is reasonable or not. If he is good then I don't have any objection to coming down there.
I am planning to check with Dr. Gerhardt. I think he does much of the same thing as Dr. Redan and may be a little closer than Florida. Dr. Redan's assistant recommended Dr. Gerhardt if I wanted someone closer. For Pete's sake, I wish there was someone in California or anywhere on the West Coast. Dr. Redan requires patients to be there for a week. If he operates on a Thursday, he would like to see them on the following Tuesday. Then one could fly out of there. You need to bring a friend and then buy 2 airline tickets, etc. I am not saying you could make some sort of vacation out of it, but you could.
Once again, I am looking for long term results from either of them or anyone.
At Sat, 26 Dec 2009, Fern wrote:
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>I would like to know of anyone that has had long term results with Dr.
>Semertzides. Dr. Semertzides does explain how he tries to get rid of
>adhesions using a fibrin glue. I went to Dr. Redan's website and he
>does not explain what he tries to do. Does his method use a fibrin
>glue?
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>Fern Hill
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