Re: whos really doing your surgery??

August 29, 2001

I wondered about this in my own case as well. Dr Hess has been

training Dr Oakley (an experienced bariatric surgeon) to do the DS

for several months now. When I did my pre-op work at the hospital I

noticed that all my labs, etc were ordered under Dr Oakley's name,

and that I had been admitted to Dr Oakley.

I asked Dr Hess about this, and he gave a reply to the effect that

the hospital may use any physician from the group for paperwork

purposes. He assured me that HE was doing my surgery.

When I was wheeled into OR, Dr Hess, Dr Hess Jr, and Dr Oakley were

all there. I think all three of them worked together. I was a

revison, and had lots of adhesions to work through, yet rolled out in

about 3 hours.

Interestingly, my OR report has Oakleys name on it. So maybe he's

being credited with some of the surgeries to get his stats up or

something.

I really dont know, and actually, I've had such a good outcome and

feel lucky to have had Dr Hess, (actual or otherwise) that I guess

it's not all that big of a deal.

Meli

-46lb in 9 weeks

- In duodenalswitch@y..., dreamweavergirlus@y... wrote:

> I too have been wondering about this. I had Dr.Ganger as a surgeon.

> However Dr.Quinn was there as an assistant. She has been very

> involved in my aftercare and extremely interested in my progress.

> Ever since I saw her there has been a question in the back of mind

> as to whether she performed part of my surgery. I am not

> complaining I am just extremely curious as to may have held a

> scalpel over my body while I was out. I signed so many things the

> day of the surgery and I was so nervous that I couldn't have read

> half of them. But there has to be a point when an assistant begins

> performing surgeries if they are ever going to become a partner. So

> there has to be a point when they start letting them perform

surgeries

> and are assisted by more skilled surgeons. I just wonder if they

tell

> the patients when the assistants begin performing part or all of

the

> surgery?

>

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