AWESOME! Thanks for that. I have a buddy that is a professor at USC so maybe, depending on the diagnosis, I may try to change to be attended there...
So, anybody have a web resource where you can check your surgeon out? Any feedback sites or anything like that that you would be willing to share.
My surgeon is Dr John Mullen from Swedish Hospital:
www.swedish.org/body.cfm?xyzpdqabc=0&id=6&action=detail&ref=670&HC1=%2D%20blank%20%2D&HC2=%2D%20blank%20%2D&HC3=%2D%20blank%20%2D
He looks ALOT younger in this picture then he really is. I think he is around 38 and is Harvard trained. He came highly recommended by my primary care doc and does a ton of urology/BC surgery. I spoke to his surgeon scheduling assistant and he told me that Dr. Mullen does alot of bladder TURBs and prostate TUIPs. I kind of like the younger docs, more aggressive, more up on recent changes and procedures plus he has a really good bedside manner. Just a really approachable, honest guy.