Re: letting another doc operate on you

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Re: Re: letting another doc operate on you

> At 2:17 PM -0700 8/29/01, Judie Hensel wrote:

> >Shirley,

> >I believe Joy did consent to letting the other doc do it.....I think

Welker

> >told her what happened and asked her if she wanted to go ahead with

it.....

> >

>

> In my case, I crossed out permissions for any other surgeon to

> operate and initialed in the margin. I designated that only Dr.

> Elariny had my consent to operate on me. --Steve

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>

thats a dang good idea, Steve!

Judie

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Someone should have smacked me upside the head to get me to do the

right thing. The problem I had was because of insurance I did not

have many choices and welker told me that day he was leaving. That

left me with Deveney. I liked him but now feel like he isn't really

into his patients.

Live and learn I guess. Seems like I choose the hard way.

> > >Shirley,

> > >I believe Joy did consent to letting the other doc do it.....I

think

> Welker

> > >told her what happened and asked her if she wanted to go ahead

with

> it.....

> > >

> >

> > In my case, I crossed out permissions for any other surgeon to

> > operate and initialed in the margin. I designated that only Dr.

> > Elariny had my consent to operate on me. --Steve

> > --

> >

>

> thats a dang good idea, Steve!

>

> Judie

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Re: Re: letting another doc operate on you

> In my case, I crossed out permissions for any other surgeon to

> operate and initialed in the margin. I designated that only Dr.

> Elariny had my consent to operate on me. --Steve

Hmmm...what if you had some sort of complication and Dr. E needed a

specialist in that field to step in immediately?

Just wondering..

alyssa

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Judie or Sherry,

How do you get a surgical report from OHSU? Think it would be a good

idea to have one.

- In duodenalswitch@y..., " Sherry " <shelters@f...> wrote:

> I do have a copy but unfortunately it is very incomplete.

> Dr. Welker is listed partway between " surgeon " and " assistant "

> and Cliff Deveney is listed as surgeon.

>

> The report is so incomplete that, when asked, Deveney could not

> tell me how long my aliminery limb is and when a nurse who has

> HAD the duodenal switch looked at it, she could not tell how

> long they made my common channel - she said it was missing some

> important stuff.

>

> -Sherry (Lake Marcel, WA)

> BPD/DS Feb. 2, 2001

> self-pay

> 5'5 " / 304 pounds / 34 years old

> Lost 9 pounds in pre-op weight loss efforts

> Have lost 107 pounds since surgery!

> Total of 116 pounds gone forEVER!

> http://www.fluffynet.com/wls/

>

>

> > Sherry,

> > Do you have a copy of your surgical report? In there it can give

> you a very

> > good idea of who did what......

> >

> > Judie

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Sherry,

Im not sure but Im thinking that since I was a medicare patient, by medicare

rules Welker had to sign this paper certifying that he was present for the

entire surgical procedure(but not that he did it) and list the common

channel as well as the alimentary total limb......maybe that is why yours

was missing some important stuff?

Mine says my common channel was created at 80 cm, alimentary total limb was

240cm and common bowel length was approximatley 560 cm....

Other reports say the alimentary limb was 250 so I dont know which one it

really is.

We all know that since the surgeries are done at a university hospital it

most likely will include those who are learing the surgery curve are

probably going to be doing some of the surgeries instead of our own

surgeon......I just never thought about that before now.......

Judie