United Brachial Plexus Network, Inc.

ha Lizzy, true about the confidentiality-but I still spotted you in a bpi textbook! Well, it was the description of the accident that I recognised 'A wall collapsed on a seamstress etc etc'....there couldn't be two! Fame at last eh??

OK, looks like, in my ignorance, I have "struck a nerve" (obviously, one that still works;) ).

My wife and I wondered about the apparent lack of communication, at least here in the US, based on our experience. In our pre-op discussions with my surgeon, we found out that while he had done many nerve transfers, this was only the second time he had performed a median nerve transfer in the forearm and that he was not sure if anyone else had done this procedure. About a week after my surgery, a nurse for a Dr in Florida called to follow-up on an inquiry we had made weeks earlier. After I explained that I had already had surgery, and did my best to describe it, she stated that she wished I had called them back because this Dr specialized in treating my problem. This statement, and the earlier one by my surgeon, are what caused us to wonder about the communication between Drs.

Sounds like I jumped to a big, and inaccurate, conclusion.

On the competition subject, maybe we could use the demand side of the equation to request that our Drs talk to each other during our visits.

I'm obviously not a Dr, or a lawyer, but it doesn't seem to me that they would need to mention a patients name to discuss how they did a median nerve transfer in a patients forearm. Seems like it would just be a discussion about the anatomy and the procedure(s) used.