Amputees & Status

[Ranitak at aol.com]

in my case, when i had the staff infection, after my bk revision, my ortho 
wasn't in, so i saw someone else in his practice. this other surgeon could 
see there was infection, but it was obvious he didn't want to intervene, over 
his colleague, so he let me hang another few weeks with a bone infection....
nice.
anita


In a message dated 99-04-30 10:01:40 EDT, you write:

<< 
 I'd have to agree with Al re: the pecking order. When
 I had osteomyelitis and went septic, I spent a lot of time
 in the hospital and, so, got to observe interactions between
 various MD groups. Surgeons and trauma specialists were the
 most self-important and tended to treat me like a specimen.
 PMR docs got the least respect, but were the most- compassionate-
 for lack of a better term. There were individual exceptions,
 of course, but that was my take on the various specialty groups. >>