I don’t have a Cleveland or Mayo Clinic near me. We do have a trauma hospital that accepts emergency surgery patients for immediate surgery if needed. What do you do when a hospital doesn’t send me home but transfers me to a trauma hospital for emergency surgery because of a torn aortic aneurysm in my abdomen.

A few years ago it wasn’t torn, measured around 3.5 cm. And I had no pain. The cardiovascular surgeon acknowledged it and told me that I will have to return to the trauma hospital for surgery but because it presently is not bleeding
( I’m on blood thinners too due to my mechanical aortic valve replacement surgery in 2012). So I get discharged with strict “instructions “ that i contact my own cardiovascular surgeon.

The surgery team concluded that I was stable enough for discharge a few hours later. I made an appointment that afternoon with my own cardiovascular doctor.

He was annoyed with me for forcing him to see me asap! He says that “all hospitals say that “ so even two cardiovascular surgeons seen it and his aid does an echocardiogram and my surgeon said “I didn’t see anything “ Why has he been monitoring it for two years and now saying he didn’t see anything?

He rushed, spoke over me, and laughed it off! As he’s running out of the exam room I asked him if it could burst and he said “yes, it could but we have ways of dealing with that.”

It’s usually quick and fatal without immediate action. I could die on the sidewalk!
He says “see you next year “. For what? If he’s saying he didn’t see it why should I go back? I need a new cardiovascular doctor. I got one but have to wait a couple of months before he can see me. So that’s where I stand. He rushed out of the exam room and disappeared. I had to make a 12 month appointment with the grouchy secretary.