@irol You know, this whole surgeon-apathy thing is not OK. It's also not OK to withhold information pre-op about the variations in pain among different patients and kinds of complications. Now that I'm having a revision due to the screw ups of my first doc, I've made sure my current surgeon is responsive and will be post-op. Before I went to see him last week, I emailed a list of questions and he took all the time in the world to go over them with my husband and me. Included was a question about thorough follow up as frequently as needed to which he replied "of course!"

Now my husband is (as my grandfather used to say) "loaded for bear" re: suing the first surgeon. We'll see how that goes.