UPDATE:
In july I had made an appointment to see the doctor who performed the surgery. I wanted to be sure that since the surgery was obviously a failure that no serious complications would erupt. His reaction was "yep the hernia came back" and "we will do the mesh procedure on you next time". I remember thinking there's no way I'm letting this guy do the procedure again.
Then a few weeks later I get a bill for $100 for the office visit! Can you believe these people? I wouldn't have needed to go back to him if he had done the procedure properly to begin with. So I called his secretary to argue this point and she said "I'm sorry you weren't satisfied with the outcome" and refused to cancel the bill. I told her that I was going to call my lawyer.
I didn't call my lawyer and I ended up paying the $100 so it wouldn't go on my credit. I just wanted to forget about it. But now it's october and I still have a painful hernia, and I'm thinking about calling my lawyer again.
Moral of the story; If your doctor says he's not going to do the mesh procedure - find another doctor!
In july I had made an appointment to see the doctor who performed the surgery. I wanted to be sure that since the surgery was obviously a failure that no serious complications would erupt. His reaction was "yep the hernia came back" and "we will do the mesh procedure on you next time". I remember thinking there's no way I'm letting this guy do the procedure again.
Then a few weeks later I get a bill for $100 for the office visit! Can you believe these people? I wouldn't have needed to go back to him if he had done the procedure properly to begin with. So I called his secretary to argue this point and she said "I'm sorry you weren't satisfied with the outcome" and refused to cancel the bill. I told her that I was going to call my lawyer.
I didn't call my lawyer and I ended up paying the $100 so it wouldn't go on my credit. I just wanted to forget about it. But now it's october and I still have a painful hernia, and I'm thinking about calling my lawyer again.
Moral of the story; If your doctor says he's not going to do the mesh procedure - find another doctor!