RE: Three Issues

[Guest guest]

Lord knows I'm gonna get it for this response, but I've got a couple of

pieces of paper on the wall that say I know what I'm talking about so here

it goes...

In my opinion, and the reason I chose Dr. Ren, is that women, in general,

are more pyschologically fit to be surgeons and more physically adept at

carrying out intricate procedures.

Women are born with nurturing instincts as part of their pscyche. Men are

born with a drive to propigate and dominate. Now many, many, many

environmental factors interact with these inate drives as we grow up. But

the foundation never changes. When it comes right down to it, I want that

foundation when my innards are being proded and poked. A man WOULD be more

likely to try a radical save in an emergency or due exploratory surgery.

But I believe the DS surgery is common enough now to fall under normal

surgery.

Secondly, women in tests after test prove to have faster reflexes and

ability to handle more intricate movements than men. We are much stronger

than women but they can out manuever us.

Anyways, now that I have trashed my gender and sounded like Oprah on a

Twinkie-high I shall retreat.

Reece Manley, PhD

Pre-Op

Dr. Ren

Dallas, TX

Three Issues

Hi all,

While trying to decide which surgeon to use I've got it narrowed down to

Gagner at Mt. Sinai or Dr. Ren at NYU.

Gagner is a great surgeon, as I'm sure Dr. Ren would attest to, but the

after care story I'm hearing about is less than appealing. Add to that the

ridiculous

attitude you have to put up with from some office staff and Dr. Ren's

program looks appealing.

Here are three issues that trouble me.

ONE: I am male with a bmi of about 52 or 53. I know it is harder to do

the surgery on men and most of the people who are so happy with Dr. Ren's

care are women with bmi's much lower than that. I am very happy for all

of them and glad they're doing well but I am in a different category.

Two: It has been suggested to me that at Mt. Sinai if Dr.Gagner is not

available for an emergency there are many qualified well trained

specialist to step in. Dr. Ren has a limited staff. What happens in an

emergency and Dr. Ren gets the flu like bug that's gotten me TWICE in

the last five months?

THREE: The time factor. Everybody is happy that Dr. Ren takes her time

with each patient and I agree that is usually a plus. But in

laparoscopic surgery speed is good thing. You don't want to be under

anasthesia any longer than needed. I was once told that I couldn't have

knee surgery because I was " Too Big " and wouldn't survive the

anasthesia. OK, maybe that was an uninformed opinion but that Surgeons

voice still rings in my head when I read about one happy camper who

was under for EIGHT HOURS!

God bless her but that scares me half to death and I don't want to

go the other half just yet. : - )

Finally, is the office staff that good and is the hospital care really

that good at NYU? Did anyone need to get PRIVATE DUTY NURSES? That seems to

be essential at Mt. Sinai.

Any informative comments would be greatly appreciated. I am coming down to

the wire as far as a decision is concerned.

Thanks all,

Will

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