"Ultimately I am very happy with my choice of surgeon. My first impression of Dr. Blackstone was that I didn't really care for her and I had heard that her bedside manner was very abrupt. However I knew from doing a lot of research beforehand that she was/is an excellent surgeon. And that was all that mattered to me. She is very interested and invested in her patients succeeding and doing well. One thing that i did not like was that immediately after my surgery, i had a lot of complications with strictures and had to be readmitted a few weeks after my original surgery to get it fixed and had it happen 4 more times after that.....at the onset of my complications I felt as if Dr. blackstone thought i was exaggerating my symptoms and pooh poohing the possibility that something was really wrong.........however after doing an endoscopy and seeing that yes i did have a major problem, the situation changed. "
