PATIENT'S PERSPECTIVE

Often a person's own experience with having had surgery is more informative than the facts presented by a healthcare professional.  For this reason we have asked patients to provide their "perspective" as to how their experience was for their operation.  We hope these unique "first-person" accounts will help to relieve some anxieties you may have about a similar surgical procedure.  Please remember that not every patient will have the same experience as those of our presenters.

Lumbar Laminectomy- Bruno Sammartino, Caroline Lollini, Rev. John Dennis

Anterior Cervical Discectomy with Bone Fusion and Plate

Richard McDonald, Phyllis Wilson, Robert Bear

Lumbar Microdiscectomy - Matthew Lucas, Robert Bushovisky

Lumbar Interbody Fusion - Norbert Alphonso

Spinal Cord Tumor - Mary Jane Love, Dolores Kulish

Pituitary Tumor - Roberta Borgo

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