Come to NYC when you need an operation of any kind.
Thanks, great advise. If I could afford to, I would. BUT that idiot doc who killed Joan Rivers would have killed me too, as I’m as sensitive as JT was to anesthesia. Old doc in Chicago I went to for years told me I’d better not ever be in an accident, because they’d kill me trying to cure me. I had some stomach scan test in SF done by Dr Ostroff, head of Internal Med at UC Hospital in SF, rank one of the top guys. I told him to give me HALF as much anesthetic as he’d give anyone else. The minute the shot hit my arm, I knew it was too much. “You son of a.....I said as I went under.
Three hours late a team of nurses were standing over me slapping my arm, calling my name, and trying to wake me up. I came to a little bit and the first words out of my mouth was...Bitch.” Had to finish that sentence. They let me out and I drove home to Emeryville, across the SF Bay Bridge. Worst drive of my life...they should have kept me there another hour at least.
When I saw Ostroff again, I told him he should have given me half as much, and he said: “I did.”
I really have to fight for my life with all these SOBs.
Actually, my ophthalmologist in Seattle was rated top corneal transplant doc in the world. With a Japanese fellow in SF ranked a close second.