Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm

San Fran Vet hospital is probably under a microscpe on good results
So I'm not flying everywhere to get the same thing done

Right pay Yale $700.00 for the same results San Fran Vet hospital said , Nope
So just stay positive about it all

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This can be a risky surgery. They MAY BE great surgeons but I would ask for proof - data. How does he know? What is he basing this "opinion" on?
One renown surgeon at a high volume hospital told my husband and me that my husband should absolutely have his 4.8 cm ascending aortic aneurysm repaired now. We started to ask questions: Do you use antegrade or retrograde cerebral perfusion? What are your stats? (They have these statistics!!) No answers were forthcoming. We transferred to another older and wiser surgeon on the same staff whose opinion was that surgery was not appropriate for my husband at this juncture.

One renown surgeon at a high volume hospital told my husband and me that my husband should absolutely have his 4.8 cm ascending aortic aneurysm repaired now.
well the wiser surgeon said probably fix it at 5.5
so we keep going in circles on when to fix it , Which every one is saying 5.5
I'm sure in June when new Ct scan is done , I'll start asking more questions
Like are VA Palo Alto Health Care better on surgerys than San Fran ?
There something to do with Stanford surgeons I guess

There both Va Hospitals . Do I really want pay Medicare 20% on surgery balance ?
Not really let the goverment pay for it

Yeah right , lets say surgery is 100, 000 20% is 20 grand to Medicare
No let Uncle Sam pay for it on renowned surgeons lol

I'm a old carpet layer , when customers used to tell my trade , I'd tell them I'm going to charge you more
Its the same on surgeons

Are you going to do this and that ? Put this guy asleep so he shuts up

Here is a website with data available to consumers. It is the Society for Thoracic Surgeons data base. While this does not talk about aortic aneurysms you can do some comparisons here for your California centers.
https://publicreporting.sts.org/search?search_api_fulltext=California+san+francisco+VA