Sorry to hear about your negative experience with your neurosurgeons.
Through my four year journey of chasing the origins/cause of my unknown disease, there have been many disappointmennts concerning the medical community, including this head shaker from last week:
My local neurologist, after reviewing my most recent records from Mayo, explained my current medical status with her and our local clinic this way: "Advise that you continue to follow with Mayo and further follow-up with me is not warranted at this time. I do not have any addditional information to offer regarding the recommendations from Mayo and would not follow for now as it appears they are taking over."
I received the following from Mayo neurology the day prior to the above: "It is important to maintain communication with the providers outside of Mayo Clinic who deliver medical care to you. I would encourage you to provide copies of the clinical information to your medical provider."
Too many times, it seems, members of the medical community do not - or will not - communicate with each other, either as fellow physicians or as members of medical departments. Where is the teamwork, collaboration, and cooperation? At the end of the day, shouldn't the conversation be about the patient rather than bruised egos?
Perhaps those in the medical communities need reminding of the long standing "oath of ethics", in part "..I will remember that there is an art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and underestanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug...I will not be ashamed to say 'I know not,' nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery...may I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help..."