Your Help needed for uninformed pre-op
Hi all! I have posted before and just wanted to tell you that I called Dr.
Daniel Fabito’s office in St. Louis AGAIN today. We’re going to be in the
STL area in a couple of weeks for a wedding so I wanted to stop at the
hospital and have a look around. I was asking his coordinator about what all
I needed to do before surgery, etc. I’ve kind of felt like I’m floundering
here a bit because I didn’t seem to be getting any answers! Well, as it
turns out, I found out from Ida (the coordinator) today that Dr. Fabito does
group consults/seminars every Monday at 4:30. We were planning on coming
home on Sunday, but since we’re going to be there already (we live about 6-7
hours from STL) I went ahead and booked us for the consult/seminar. I guess
that will really get the ball rolling. I want to have surgery in the
December timeframe. I did ask how many procedures the Dr. has performed,
etc. Ida told me he’s performed over 1800 surgeries and I just HAD TO ask
the next question…..he’s had 8 deaths. WOW! 8!!! That was really a
shocker…I was all ready for ZERO, but considering the number of surgeries
he’s done, I guess 8 isn’t such a high number. She said they were all do to
post-op complications and that all those would be discussed in the consult.
Can anyone help me with questions I want/need to get answers to so I can ask
the right questions at the consult? As I said, it’s 6-7 hrs from here, so I
really think the pre-op contact is going to be minimal and I’ll do the
majority of the other consults (GI, Psych, Pulm, Cario, etc.) will be done
here in Tulsa.
Additionally, can anyone give me any insight to the SouthPointe Hospital in
St. Louis or on Dr. Daniel Fabito?
I am 110% committed to WLS but now I’m starting to have a thousand things
going through my mind….like should I find a dr. closer to home for
follow-ups, complications, etc?
Any help you can give me is GREATLY APPRECIATED!!
Janice in Tulsa