my worries of trusting doctors during surgery!

[lollipopfields2000]

there is a grand veiw hospital in perkasie Pa. which is quite a nice hospital, the doctors have good bed side manner,. my grand father who is now 79 going on 80 years old, had a triple biopsy, meaning he had surgy on his heart, and what a dangerouse surgy it is. he surviveed it. hes though thank god!  the nurses were nice, to get to the point. how do you really know that if you had to have surgery, a dangerouse one perhaps? or simple ones?  how do you know when to trust a doctor when they are performeing surgery? how do you know if they wont make a mistake? or do something on purpose?

[xrayu2]

you can also go to the AMA website and check on a doctors,hospitals,etc. malpractice rate.  You find out from the hospitals how many of a certain surgery are performed there in year, too.  The more often they perform the easier it becomes you would think.  If nothing get a second opinion.

[fattierattie]

In my experience, go with your gut. I'm done dealing with our local hospitals. We drive almost an hour to get to a mainline hospital, because the standards of care are MUCH higher there. They also have more specialists and more ORs and such. Trust yourself. Listen to what friends and family tell you as well.

[soniek]

i feel like,as far as mistakes go,unfortunatly,everone makes them..as fr as a good doctor,you have to call around,ask for refernces,ask other patients,ask for any creditials from former patience,and maybe im stupid for saying this,but there are some docs i knew i could trust right from the get go,then there were others,that i knew immediatly,that i would never go back to.....