"My wife is a NURSE and DID NOT WANT ME TO GO TO MEXICO!
Health care people have heard (and sometimes seen) patients who have had disastrous results so they extrapolate it to anything and everything (guess why we don't have a trampolines, motorcycles or Tide pods...) So I had to fight her on going but took her with when I was sleeved by Dr. Alvarez 10/10/19. She was ready to pounce on anything and everything they might do wrong. I thought that was kinda funny since I am worth more to her dead than alive alas, that's why I brought her.
Here are two observations from an American Nurse.
1. You can do a blood draw from an IV, thus only "sticking" a patient once instead of twice. (I did not know this)
2. In the US they use a double identifier when giving pain meds. (i.e they verbally ask your info, then they scan your wrist band as the second identifier and they don't do that here) I thought this was nit picky since all of us got the same pain killers but ok, point taken. If those were the only two egregious sins, I was in great hands!
Results?
My wife the nurse, who was so against going to Mexico just set an appointment to be sleeved by Dr. Alvarez on March 6th!
My advice.
To say that she was impressed is putting it mildly. The hospital is spotless, the Surgery Room is immaculate, and the surgery only lasts 25 minutes. Dr. A only does 4 surgeries a day (my wife was REALLY impressed with this fact) and he "rounds" every day with his 2 Jr. Dr's, the nurses AND the Anesthesiologist!
I was patient number 16,590. The dude knows his craft. I think my wife found out that the last patient to have complications was over 7 years ago.
I'm 10 weeks out and have lost 56 lbs.
If an American Nurse with unbelievably high standards is willing to have her own surgery done here, you know the reviews don't lie and the experience is Top Shelf.
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