[Maria]

I am certain that there are orthopedic/neurosurgeon offices that you can walk into and the doctor will say you need a posterior fusion with rods. If you ask them if there are any other options, they will say, "No" because they personally don't offer any other options. Now, I think that sucks big time. They won't tell you to go down the street and get a second opion from a guy that is younger or that is doing ADR's. Trust me, this happens all the time. They need to make payments on a new vacation home, buy into a practic and send their kids to elite collages and make sure the glamor wife stays fit or the mistress is happy or the gold leaf wallpaper in the master bath gets put in, or new hair plugs, etc. Now it's not always like that or that dramatic. But, if there is an opening in the surgery schedule, I am here to tell you that that has significant bearing on whether you will have surgery or not. This is all the human side of it. Average person can't immagine this happening but it does. I know this from the horses mouth, not making it up. Sorry for the rant. Peace.

Have personally been down this road myself while out surgeon shopping.. and even with having had surgery~ kkkk chinnnnnggggg $$$$$ over ethics way too often it seems