That's a blessing when you find a good one who is helpful.
I agree that there are good and bad Drs and health Care professionals of all kinds. I can point to examples of good and bad chiros, nurses, techs and surgeons too. We hear a lot of the successful things in the media that has a conflict of interest. I'm balancing the perspective as many MDs are now doing since the heart damage shots that all the hospitals pushed.
You are not doing this. But you'll notice that many use the homogeneous term THE DR. Like we are talking about an all encompassing health care physician. In some ways I understand that because the origins of pharmaceutical industry became popular by fiat. There were huge money men who demonized and even outlawed treatments that competed with their financial investments.
Now just about every medical school purposefully excludes true health from their curriculum and is very much controlled by big pharma. Unless med students take enough interest in their patients to study health, they will willfully dispense drugs and every financially lucrative treatment without regards to those who trust them.
This problem is why most have not heard much of anything about heart health care from their surgeons, GPs and cardiologists.
I have a book that I loaned to my late best friend who was an osteopathic physician. His education and experience was far beyond that of the vast majority of MDs in my local hospitals. He responded to my book with his own footnotes and accolades.
>HERE<< is an audio interview with the author of my favorite book on cardiology. Verify the information for yourself and choose your own path though.
Just below the green box with the audio interview is a link with Dr Stephen Sinatra, MD, who happens to be another good resource IMHO. There's more that I can add to the knowledge found in it, that I've discovered in the past 12 years from dozens of good sources.
That's how I can rightly criticize some while praising others.
I'm glad that you are benefitting from your chosen procedure. I've spent long conversations with the research assistants of the surgeon who developed the heart valve. Those were very interesting times. They described the animal trials in pigs at a time when I was participating in separate research.
How has the surgery helped you function better?