"The pre-op staff and floor nursing staff were very freindly, caring and helpful. The charge nurses took particular care to talk to me and make sure I knew to seek assistance if I felt nauseous to avoid vomiting. My recovery room experience was very unpleasant, but the remainder of my stay was as good as can be expected - I mean, there is only so much they can do when you are tied to an IV and in pressure booties and so on ;-)"
"My surgical consult was July 19th. My first impression was that he is very young! But he also is obviously very knowledgable and personable. The consult went very smoothly, it actually started earlier than the appointment (how often does that happen?) and only took 45 minutes. He does rely on you reading materials he provides on his web-site about surgical risk, so there was little discussion of that. He talked to me about my surgery choice and how my eating habits could affect my success and emphasized that I would have to change my habits. I think the only thing that could have been done to enhance the process today was to have something that laid out who I would talk to and what types of questions each would be able to answer and what would happen after I left. I met with Dr. Schweitzer the morning of surgery and he walked through the risks quickly and met my mom. He stopped and updated my mom when the surgery was over. His surgical assistant came by that evening and went over incision care and post-op instructions. All in all, I felt very comfortable that I was in competent hands and his staff have been helpful and competent. If I had it to do over again, I would make the same choice for my surgeon."
