Your ongoing contention that "I am wrong again," is meaningless rhetoric . . . especially as your complete frame of reference is your one parsonal experience. Like the 5 blind men inspecting an elephant, each could only draw conclusion as to what the animal was really like by the area he touched. So, you believe that your one personal experience can be extrapolated. Realize that if you had had in your one experience more pain and a stormy post-operative period, you would now be just as vociferous in condeming the procedure as you are in now lauding it. But the efficacy of medical procedures is not determined in that manner. I have gained a fair amount of stature in my profession because I have performed good work and made good professional decisions over a long period of time. I know that you would rather believe that your brief encounter with this surgery qualifies you to make judgements about it, when the only judgements you can truly make are based on your solitary anecdotal experience.
As I have stated over and over again, there is a place for these procedures, but that is the exception rather than the rule for significant problems. I can say that because I have the years of experience behind me to know and understand that. I don't think that I will change your mind, but my purpose in these discussions is to hopefully inform others to exercise caution, good sense and care when they submit themselves to the knife in the hands of someone whom they don't really know anything about . . whether that someone be me or some other doctor. |
