@charlotte12 mayo is the only place that i've seen to do in person pre-op eval for All patients. most hospitals will only do that if you have certain high risk pre-existing conditions. Re: post-op infection, I noticed that most of the things used by the patient (i.e. blood pressure cuff, anti clot booties, etc) were all one time use disposable, which is nice to minimize chance of infection from re-use between patients. Frankly I've never thought to ask about that in advance either but they were things I noticed atf that were very different from other hospitals.