Originally posted by: iliopsoas
Originally posted by: Gravity
They also used a Bier block as a local. It was neat and I was numb. Then they gave me the other shot and I was ZZzzZZzz....for quite a while.
Anisthesia is cumulative and can reside in your liver for days/weeks. If I needed to be anestitized again due to injury, it could have been ineffective or fatal.
That's the danger of the general PLUS the local vs. the local alone.
Are you sure you had general anesthesia? Did the anesthesiologist tell you that they put a tube into your trachea to help you breathe? You may have had only conscious sedation. $3600 isn't much for general endotracheal anesthesia and hand surgery.
As for the lump in your hand, it really depends on how involved it is. Hand surgery is delicate. People do many years of training to become a hand surgeon. If cosmetics and hand function aren't important to you, then I can remove the lump for you myself. $500. Just make sure you sign a waiver.
Also, you don't know what that lump is. If there is any possibility of it being a cancerous growth, then the surgeon has to take great care to completely excise it and send to the lab for pathologic examination. Ever thought about these reasons when you were referred to a hand specialist?
It seems like you received pretty good care and suffered no complications. You don't even seem to know much about the medical care that you received. And you're thinking of suing?