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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I met with a surgeon today for a consult for significant and urgent surgery. There were a number of things I was unimpressed with but one was that they only give Tylenol. I feel like they would probably give more if a patient was in REALLY bad shape but her take was “some discomfort is normal after major surgery but it should be manageable with Tylenol.” That’s jacked up. We invented medication so that you don’t have to feel pain. Give a patient 3-5 days of pain meds. I’m meeting with other surgeons because this one seems heartless.[/quote]

I agree with you 100%. That level of rigidity in pain management would be a red flag to me - what other subjects are they rigid about that might effect the surgery and my recovery.[/quote]

This is OP.  It's this exactly.  Rigidity in a way that doesn't seem to care about the patient's experience.  They also don't release pathology results when they become available.  You have to wait until your follow up appointment with the surgeon a couple of weeks later so the surgeon can "contextualize" them.  I suspect they have that policy because people called the office upset after reading their results on MyChart, and they don't want to deal with crying callers.  But very few people need context to understand "carcinoma" or "benign."  They just don't want to deal with outside of the follow up appointment.[/quote]

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