Poll - has your doc ever lied to you?

"At one time it was in the literature not to drink soda because of stretching your pouch, so I don't think he lied to you there"

What literature?  I have done a bunch of research on several aspects of RNY (pouch stretching being one of them) and I have never seen anything in any peer-reviewed medical literature about carbonated beverages stretching the pouch.  The only place I have ever seen it is on internet sites (none of them exactly Mayo clinic type of quality sites) or material that individual doctors give their patients.

Lora

 Lora, I can't tell you where I read it now, but I have seen it in published medical literature, but I have not seen it in any recent articles or reports that I have read.  If I happen to run across it again I will be sure to save it for you.  

Thanks.

Lora

As far as I know, my RNY surgeon has never lied to me. 

There have been two occasions, however, where she did not give me ALL the relevant info: she did not tell me that I had gallstones even before my surgery and she did not tell me that the percentage of RNY patients who dump is so low (about 30%).  If I had known about the gallstones, since I had already had a bout of idiopathic pancreatitis, I would have requested that she take my gallbladder when I had the open RNY... especially since it was already approved by the insurance company to be done at that time.  If I had known that only 30% dump, I might have opted for the DS instead of the RNY.

Lora

I feel like my surgeon and his staff have been open and honest. I felt very informed going into the surgery and contact them occasionally for more info. Of course I am only a little more than 3mths out,, but I have the utmost respect for my doc so far.

My primary doc is Dr. Amazing.

 I dont think any of my physicians have ever lied to me, however I feel that a couple of them may have omitted crucial information that needed to be relayed to me. I do not think it was intentional. If I ever thought one lied to me I would change physicians as I feel you need to trust any physician you go to.

Lying implies that he knew one thing and told you another.  It sounds more like your Dr. was just mistaken.  Saying he lied seems a bit harsh to me as opposed to saying he told you something that was wrong.  There is a difference between a mistake and a falsehood.  One is an issue of professional competence and the other is an issue of moral failure.  I'm not saying one is better or worse than the other, just that they are not the same thing, although personally I'd rather someone was questioning my competence than my morality.

The only time I ever fired my Dr. it was an issue of poor management and disresepct for my time.  I just got tired of having a 4:30 appointment and not getting out of his office until 6:30 after having a 5 minute consultation (no complaint about the 5 minutes - that was all that was needed).  If it happened once I could see it as an exception but it happened time after time and when I complained about it he told me that he takes the time he needs to take with each patient and if that was a problem for me maybe he wasn't theright Dr. for me.  He didn't seem to understand that it wasn't the amount of time he took with each patient that was the problem, it was that he didn't take that into account in how he scheduled his appointments. 

So I took him at his word and got a new Dr who is at least as good and sees me within 15 minutes of my appointment time and gives me an appropriate amount of time, which sometimes is 5 minutes and sometimes is considerably longer.

i am not sure if it is lying or them telling you only what they deem important or maybe like you said, he was good at cutting but not an overall caregiver.  i have been told things are fine and seen a report and saw the same things you did, 

i combat it by getting copies of all my bloodwork etc and having a dr who allows me to ask questions and will back up his opinion.  i respect his opinion and if i explain my concern he will agree with me if it makes sense or explain why he doesnt.  i think of drs as partners,  they are the professional, but no one is more invested in my health than me and they can miss the big picture sometimes with so many patients.

i guess ok meant somehitng different to him!  lol