TO MAMAOFFOUR AND EVERYBODY GOODBYE

I would just like to say that Momoffour talks about bashng doctors, but from what I jusy read its seems she doesn't mind attacking hospitals with her opinion. I believe her words were I would rather cut off a limb then be a patient at Hartford Hospital, or St. Francis. Talk about people being turned away I am a patient of Dr. Barba's have just recently completed my testing and now waiting for appointment with docotor and you now have me questioning the hospital I will have my surgery in. I also feel bad for patients who have surgerys scheduled soon at those hospitals, I wonder what they must be thinking. I do not reply often but have been on ths web site for a while and get of good ideas and questins answered just by reading others post. Julio is a dream with his morning food log. Please take time before you post to see if something you say could be harmful to another person, maybe even someone new looking for guidence. Kathim

It is easy to become an apologist for a surgeon who we feel saved our lives-- as a result many of us sometimes slip into attacking those peers who do not offer the same praise that we feel is due our surgeons. However, expressing disbelief at how some of us manage our finances can not be tolerated. The insensitivity of her posts are particularly compounded when you read her retort to my posting under the thread. First, it is a stretch to consider turning away a patient because of a long-past due bill owed to an associate as a hallmark of a caring surgeon. It might be the sign of a shrewd businessperson. Admittedly, I have been a bit jaded having represented many doctors in my legal practice. Although I have pursued debts owed to them, I have not known any of them to have turned away patients who came to them with a medical need. Secondly, we all acknowledge that gastric bypass saves lives and that it cures several known co-morbidities; therefore, how can the nurse-poster claim that bariatric surgey is elective? How does surgery that saves lives become "elective"? Secondly, she sings the praises of a surgeon who was at her bedside for a problem not related to her bariatric procedure. However, for those of us *****member her posts when she was ill and when she had her appendix issues, there did seem to be a thread that she had not been given an immediate appointment to see her surgeon. Once again, maybe that is her understanding of the hallmark of a caring and skilled surgeon. I don't know because it is not for me to comment-- they are not my medical decisions. You see, it is incredibly easy for any of us to take comments we post completely out of context and contort them to suit or own ends (or needs). The danger is that, as we make comments that make us feel better at the expense of others, we make the site much less friendly and much less useful for all.