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roger555, thank you, an apt way to put it. A million ways things could have turned south. A surprising thing I found having become a hernia statistic is once in, you’re in for life. Once an IH, then we have a high chance of having one on the other side. So I became a lifer. Who knows when my other side will pop.

@Watchful, you’re comment is…[Read more]

Watchful, good of you to clarify my reference to you. However, I wish to point out you were really not faithful to your original report (numbered #33613 here). At the start of reporting your colleague, you stated that “most of the [reviews] he found were good.” Today, you started off negatively by saying two reported recurrences. Positive note…[Read more]

Corrections needed about Chuck’s misdirected comments about Kang:
1 Chuck as I have shown in a recent, related post and many of us know, Chuck is prone to exaggerate and be highly emotional. He is also easily swayed by anecdotes without considering their contexts. He has been called by some Members for misrepresenting medical complaints he finds…[Read more]

None as you described nor any negativity in my opposite side. Not sure exactly how to describe because is not often and has short duration. I should not have mentioned it because some of you try to make too much ado about nothing. If it was burning, I would have said so. If aching, I would said so. If tingling, I would have said so and so on and…[Read more]

Chuck, let’s look what you said:
1 “…unusual sensation??????”
What’s with all the question marks? Those express high emotion, in this case negative!!
2 “that doesnt sound good” … they are unsettling”

“Hello, Earth to Chuck, can you read me?” Your statement 2 is a claim. You are claiming my words “unusual sensation” must be…[Read more]

Chuck, you’re being ridiculous, twisting my words to suit some sort of stratagem. Listen I’m gonna tell ya straight—No one on earth can find a 100% guarantee—whether buying bonds, wooing a love interest, or walking into the street. The same applies to you or anyone about surgery. I told you my experience has been painless. I have no issues…[Read more]

Whoa, whoa,:D 😀 I just saw your closing comment, Chuck:
“Second I simply dont believe only pain for a week…I have never heard anyone who had a tissue repair say all their pain was gone in one week,,,that is simply not feasible…I wish folks would endeavor to be more honest here.”

Excuse me I have to laugh 😀 :D. What I said is true I had and…[Read more]

Chuck, here again when doing critique we need to be accurate–make sure you know what you are talking about. You claim I’m not being “entirely honest.” Your assertion is false and attributable probably not reading all I wrote and possibly misinterpreting something.

Yes I had some friction with the “hospital” but was resolved in my favor. The…[Read more]

Chuck, get ready coz I’m gonna screw up your statistics. You apparently overlook a very important difference between Kang and the other docs, which in effect skews the data—patient intake. Kang virtually takes any patient in need but not the other docs, surely not Shouldice. If true, Kang’s open policy disadvantages him against the other docs.…[Read more]

Opinions will differ all long the way about each “advancement” but only time will tell how much they truly were. Although some advancements are more significant than others, medical practice has advanced steadily over time. In hindsight some may have proved false but the totality of medical practice over the past century has surely improved the…[Read more]

@MarkT: “I’ve also never brought up my experiences there (30yrs and ~20yrs ago) to ‘equate’ them with recent surgeries, but rather to speak to my experiences at the time, my outcomes (flawless in all respects, to the present day), and what someone might generally expect after a Shouldice repair in terms of a ‘standard’ recovery, to ease their con…[Read more]

I’m sorry for you too @Jtk2. It’s one of the most awful stories I’ve heard how the surgeon brushed you aside not once but at least twice. Just awful. Surely the work of surgeon is demanding and we patients as well, but there’s no excuse for his behavior. If any doc who would happen to read this and I’m wrong, I’d be happy hearing about it.
I…[Read more]

@Chuck says “The Kang repair is … more likely to recur with time….”

Of course your statement is an opinion, a supposition. Do you any empirical study to support it?

Nothing wrong with being Swedish if anyone would need reminding. Focus on this Swedish study inevitably puts a spotlight on a nation’s health care system. Although Sweden’s known as world class, one world ranking has it at number 23 (World Population Review 2023). That same index puts South Korea at no. 1. If so, it explains South Korea’s att…[Read more]

Just saw @Alephy‘s post there, much appreciated advice, thanks.

@SN, you ask a great question and Good intentions gives I think the best answer so far. GI, thanks for that.

@Mark T, are you Swedish btw, is that why you’re arguing: “This study is therefore quite relevant to hernia patients in Sweden” (as you stated in a related thread).

The issue has nothing to do about relevancy within or for Sweden. Frankly I couldn’t care less. My point has been the researchers generally were vague by not providing information…[Read more]

Watchful, I love that expression, black art. Bravo. Interestingly the black arts ignored by the study could actually number 1,000 even more per the article. Rather than practical reasons, I bet the black arts were excluded for political reasons (in mesh). (Of course I estimated the figure because the authors did not disclose the exact number of…[Read more]

You misread what I wrote despite multiple mentions. I was not referring to the database per se.

As far as your 98% figure, apparently you do not know but it is an estimate made nearly 25 years ago (coming from a 1998 publication!). Such shows how the researchers you are defending have under-reported information, which entails yourself as well.…[Read more]

The study might be of much interest to people of Sweden, fine. But I presume HT Members are from all corners of Earth and the majority of which interested in high-surgeon load hernia specialists. You can quibble about the numbers all you want but it is very likely that a vast majority of surgeries done were by low-volume load surgeons, loads…[Read more]