Surgery Date August 28th ..But got a few problems...

Hey everyone.... its me again... I finally got my surgery date its aug. 28... my ex-husbands birthday lol. anyway I was all excited until I found out that my orginal surgen will not be performing the surgery... I don't know why this has scared me so much but it has... my surgeon explained to me that they have a new surgeon within their group and he is going to be mentoring him and that this new dr. (dr. rohin patel) will be doing the surgery and he will be overseeing it. he told me not to worry at all beause he will be in the same operating room and watching everything that he will be doing. and instructing him... am I just overreacting.... If i want to have my orginal surgeon I will hav to wait like a whole nother YEAR!!!! This is really making me crazy.. I am so excited that I finally got a date but then in the same breathe I am scared cause I don't know this new dr. Anyone have any advice or have something like ths happen to them... I have come to far to just give up now and if I wait I'm afraid I'll talk myself out of it..PLEASE HELP!!!!

Hi Nancy, try to get an appointment with your new surgeon before your surgery. Hopefully this will allay any fear or uncertainty you may have. I wish you luck!

Nancy, No this is not all right. Ask those very important, but hard to ask questions, like how many has he done. I just stumbled onto your post, but I am a doctor also. I would want no one who has done less than 100 of these surgeries doing this on me, whatever "this" (whatever particular surgery) is. I know this is not what you want to hear, but it is your body, and I would not want someone "practicing" on me. FWIW.