Back in rant mode.....
I saw surgeon #2 yesterday, total a-hole.
He let his surgical resident do most of my eval (who seemed surprised how well I could read my MRI films, I told him this is far from my first rodeo).
The resident agreed that I need surgery, and then Dr. a-hole finally came in, didn't want to listen to anything I had to say and completely contridicted his assistant saying he didn't like to be so aggressive and I should try PT first and wait until it gets worse before sending me packing in about 5 minutes after being in the hospital for 3+ hours.
I told him not to sit by the phone waiting for me to make another appointment.
He also made me have a CT scan which he never looked at (I had my MRI films with me) - can you say "padding the bill" any louder?
I am going to stick with the first guy.