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Newer surgery technique: da Vinci SP (single-port robot-assisted)
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@rpogatchnik1590
My wife’s best friend’s husband had surgery by Doctor Walsh in 2001.
To say he is unhappy with the result is really downplaying it. He is furious.
He was an OB/GYN in Los Angeles. He searched all over the country and found Dr. Walsh who said that he could spare the nerves and he went to him to get that surgery.
As a Doctor he has reviewed surgery notes from doctors for decades. Frequently the surgery notes can be up to 10 pages in length.
When the surgery was complete, he found out that’s the nerves were not spared and when he asked to see the surgery notes, he was given a half page explanation of what happened. It had no useful information. Talking to the doctor was impossible, he was so arrogant.
He suspects the surgery was done by an intern with the doctor watching.
He is 90 now and has a 77 year old wife. He has had ED since the surgery, something he flew across the country to try to prevent.
After the surgery was complete, he was told that his Gleason scores was a very low 3+3. He should never have had surgery.
Dr. Walsh promised a lot and came up with nothing. It sounds like the same thing happened to you with nerve sparing failing.
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@jeffmarc And another Colossus is revealed to have ankles of clay.
Really not surprised. A friend also had open surgery by Dr Walsh at a fairly young age. Don’t know his particulars but he has been totally impotent for the past 25 years.
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@jeffmarc exactly! He was allowing students to do the cutting. The guy was the most arrogant man I ever met. He would get real nasty if you questioned home.
I later tried to get VA disability for agent orange. Ask Walsh for help. He flatly stated agent orange doesn’t cause Prostate CA.
It is now accepted as one of the biggest causes of Ca.
After 20 years the VA finally granted my disability.
I would never recommend anybody go to Johns Hopkins for prostate CA. Walsh was a nasty man, and I’ve talked to many urologist and surgeons that had to attend his lectures and studied under him and they all agree that he was a real bastard.