I had a specialized cancer surgery a few years ago, and learned something important about picking a surgeon from the research I did leading up to choosing a surgeon - something I also did for choosing a lasik surgeon. This really sounds like basic common sense, but you'd be surprised at how many don't follow this:
Statistically, the surgeon who will have the highest rate of success with the lowest rate of side effects is the surgeon who performs a specialized type of surgery only, and has performed a lot of them, and is currently performing that surgery routinely and often, and is not fresh out of college or nearing retirement. For specific operations you don't want a general surgeon, you want a specialist. You want the one you can find with the most surgeries performed, that gives him/her a wealth of experience. Ask about their side effect statistics - if they don't know them or won't quote them, keep looking.
In my case I went to a lasik specialist that has personally performed over 30,000 lasik surgeries, and peforms at least 50 per week on a routine basis. With less than 1% side effects. I wasn't looking for a bargain dr, I was looking for the best I could find.
Statistically, the surgeon who will have the highest rate of success with the lowest rate of side effects is the surgeon who performs a specialized type of surgery only, and has performed a lot of them, and is currently performing that surgery routinely and often, and is not fresh out of college or nearing retirement. For specific operations you don't want a general surgeon, you want a specialist. You want the one you can find with the most surgeries performed, that gives him/her a wealth of experience. Ask about their side effect statistics - if they don't know them or won't quote them, keep looking.
In my case I went to a lasik specialist that has personally performed over 30,000 lasik surgeries, and peforms at least 50 per week on a routine basis. With less than 1% side effects. I wasn't looking for a bargain dr, I was looking for the best I could find.
(j/k about the tonsils thing).