As a patient I thought it was great information. The only time I've ever been in adverse doctor/hospital/insurance relationship is when a doctor in a hospital botched a gall bladder surgery that was supposed to take less than 2 hours. I wife almost bled out on the operating table and the nurse came out after 4 hours and asked if the doctor has "talked" with me yet. 3 days in the hospital, a week plus still with a drain tube in her at home, followed by a consult with the top Mayo doctor doing gall bladder surgeries. Insurance paid for her to have a followup at Mayo. A team of doctors came into the room to talk to us and the first thing they asked was "what did the other doctor tell you?". I said he told us he nicked a blood vessel during the surgery. She had a follow up surgery at Methodist by the Mayo surgeon who fixed the problem and while I was in the waiting room having coffee my big ears overheard to other guys chatting. One asked the other one - "what's your wife having done?". The answer was they were fixing a botched gall bladder surgery and he said oh really, mine too. Malpractice/lawsuit never came to my mind as I know mistakes can be made. I was just peeved about multiple co-payments for both surgeries but I can rack that up to the insurance company for not letting the surgery be done right when I took her to the emergency room and they wanted to operate right away which would have been done at St. Mary's. Insurance company said we had to go through our network hospital on the other side of town.

But there is a silver lining in every cloud - my wife lost over 100 pounds because she couldn't eat or didn't feel like it for over a couple of months and once she lost the weight she liked how she felt and has been in control. She even inspired me to eat a little healthier although she does love chocolate.

Cheers!
John