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@Chuck, MarkT just gave you some solid advice. I’ve seen surgeons refer patients to urologists, well, because they’re the specialists. It kinda surprised me at first that the surgeon pauses until the urologist’s report. But it makes sense. Also I recommend you consult with Dr. Kang because recently I talked with him in his office about mesh…[Read more]

Devastating losses, Chuck, devastating. So sorry to hear it and I hope you can still bear up. I googled this about your doc and his patient Erik N. Of Gardena, CA on 10/8/2020 lamented he had no legal recourse saying, “I cannot pursue it because doctors in California are immune to lawsuits as they are so well protected by laws.”…[Read more]

Thank you but sorry that was not requested: Here is original request:
“I pressed the delete button several times for message #31198 of mine but to no avail. Could you please delete it?”

Instead the whole thread was deleted. Here it is explained on the thread “An Appeal”:
“My original thread began with two posts numbered #31198 and #31199…[Read more]

@Mike M, you got a memory and a half, bro. Thanks for that. Many have been saved by Cliff Notes in getting that C or even a B. But the vaunted ‘A’ only by going to class and digging into the course text. 😀 Now if Dr. Kang were a course, the A student would have picked up these points:(just saying, please excuse the joke 😀 )

small…[Read more]

Leading Berlin Medical Practice Exposed?
Dr. Pawlak reports his observation of medical practice in Berlin:
“I spent a few days in his excellent 3Chirurgen Practice in Spandau and learned about the indications, saw few happy follow-up patients and again practiced dynamic groin ultrasound.”
Thus Pawlak reports that the results left much to be…[Read more]

@alephy, I agree with you and I also agree there are some inherent problems with mesh. One is the communication part (though not with every “mesh” doctor) that the doctor is so sure of his/her practice and the viability of mesh that they funnel you onto the process of getting an operation without nary a word about the risk and so on. Some mesh…[Read more]

Further to my comment: My purpose is to show that some people, if not many here, treat doctors rather unfairly. Specifically they are ultra strict with mesh practitioners yet so soft with non-mesh ones. Incredibly lopsided. That unfairness results from bias.

Let me remind people here: in some extreme situations mesh is the only option. So if…[Read more]

Yes, hello, @good-intentions. Good to see you active, for we can all benefit. Speaking of conflating something, please re-read your posts for an example. 🙂 As to the matter directly, you misspeak when you make these two false claims:
“Dr. Ramshaw is just an example of how a person seeking [1] a simple hernia repair can end up with [2] a doctor…[Read more]

If I may say so, every medical practice charged for a fee is a business. Hardly is it apparent that Ramshaw’s error came from greed; nor that it was mesh. Indeed he had yet to apply mesh at the time for this patient, one who had ten previous operations for the same ailment. So I am at a loss to see how Ramshaw can epitomize the ill of mesh medical…[Read more]

Would @drtowfigh care to elaborate about Bassini? Does Bassini inherently have risk for chronic pain–apart from other methods? Here’s a recent glowing research study on Bassini success: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405857221001066#!
[Bassini inguinal hernia repair: Obsolete or still a viable surgical option? A single…[Read more]

I agree fully. I found medical opinion varies widely. And as you say, there must be individual differences in patient conditions. So we’re left to our own devices, but there’s a rub in it: if we cross the line too much, the bulge gets bigger (or the condition worsens) with no return. So I don’t mind looking for medical guidance even though I will…[Read more]

@idoncov, excellent post excellent. You are the first I believe who brought to our attention a distinction must be made between sports hernias and inguinal hernias in the case of PeterC’s. He himself never made it clear–certainly not in his previous threads about his case o this. Dr. Brown often talked about inguinal hernias here despite…[Read more]

Since being in the game of “hernias,” I have wondered what we can do specifically in workouts. A webpage that comes close though incompletely is:
https://WWW.PREMIERSURGICAL.COM/01/BEST-EXERCISES-FOR-PEOPLE-WITH-HERNIAS/
The page states the following:
“…Below are some of the exercises often recommended for hernia…[Read more]

@MarkT you made a considerate posting, which I hope helps PeterC. Let me mention something that he and others might have missed: PeterC’s claims are made not against just any doctor. They are directed against one who has contributed much to the Membership here. I believe Dr. Brown deserves fair consideration but that has been lacking in this case.…[Read more]

@PeterC, you tell us,
>>Let’s talk about it then.
Then why do ignore some of us in talking about it? We read your lengthy posts variously made, take interest, only to be ignored by you. For example, HerniaHelper and I in different threads of yours responded to you. But you never replied. Why should we read any of your postings again?

In my case nothing was needed other than the med given me by the hospital, which took me through the time I was there. I had only one pain complaint, which I have described. Because I had no pain otherwise I felt I didn’t need meds. Probably the med removed any pain but I never felt pain between takings of it. In summary the only time I felt pain:…[Read more]