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That’s the thing – patients don’t typically get referred to a pain clinic for intermittent and tolerable pain. You need to ask him how many have any level of chronic pain, and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t know and doesn’t keep track of that.
We know that most mesh surgeries for inguinal hernia turn out just fine. The problem is that the incidence of complications (including mild, moderate, and severe ones) is too high for comfort.