Reply To: American College of Surgeons (ACS) – Very strange “Bulletin”

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– he is right that little is known about patient perspectives in an objective studied manner. There are very few publications addressing it. He is not referring to patient perspectives on social media and online, if that’s your take.

– there are so many reasons for chronic pain postop. How the nerves are handled is considered one of them, as first proposed by Dr Amid, Dr Poulose’s study hints it may not be an important factor. Other causes can include too tight a repair or other surgical technique problems, choice of repair, hernia recurrence, infection, and mesh related problems.