Why I do not recommend Dr.K., part 2

(Dear IHRT, Thanks again for letting me post). I certainly cannot post this on adhesions.de, and I HAVE corresponded directly with Dr. Kruschinski).

See "Why I do not Recommend Dr. Kruschinski" , this is part 2 of that.

When I made the decision to go to Germany, I was too desperate to think clearly and I was very naive. I have learned a very hard lesson. I was very vulnerable and I went to a Dr. who I feel lured me by telling me his surgery would RESOLVE my neuropathic pain. I believed him, that was my big mistake. But my conclusion it that he knows very little or nothing about neuropathic pain, and that he lured me there for his personal financial gain.
But note that all of what I say here is my experience, and my opinion.
So do not bother to accuse me of libel, because everything I have to say is true. The dictionary definition of libel is "writing untrue things about someone" and the dictionary definition of slander is " speaking untrue things about another person, in the presence of someone else". I had to look it up myself).
We read on adhesions.de that many patients who have gone to Germany are very appreciative and very impressed that Dr. Kruschinski pays so much attention to them. It is such a contrast to how they have been treated by Drs. in the U.S. It IS true.... before they get there, while they are there, and when they return home, he is very friendly, cordial, and attentive. He returns their calls , returns their e-mail in a timely manner. In fact in an incredibly SPEEDY manner during the time when they are deciding whether or not to go to Germany and when they are making the necessary financial and travel arrangements. Remember recently IHRT published correspondance from a prospective pt's husband (they lived in Hawaii), and Dr. K. wanted their money wired before he had even received her medical reports?

Let us look at certain things about Dr. K and his medical practice. He is the head of his own institute, and he has his own business. He states he is in the process of franchising his business, even though he also states that he is the only one who can do the job right. That does not seem logical to me.

Because he is not affiliated with a University and he does not work in a teaching hospital, there are no "rounds" that he needs to go on with medical students, interns, and residents. Probably he has no committee meetings that he must attend, except perhaps those regarding the Emma Clinic. Most likely, NO PEER REVIEW. Quite possibly, there is no oversight of his surgery or anything else about his business.

And it is a business, he is a Doctor AND a businessman. All doctors who are in private practice are businessmen(or business women). As a businessman, he must have a steady flow of pts. and to do that, he is like a salesman, and he is good at it. He knows how to make pts. feel important, and indebted to him. He gets pts. from word-of-mouth and internet communication. When they arrive, they are seen in his office which is next to the apt. The next day or so, he operates on them, and he sees them after surgery in Emma Clinic, and on subsequent days in his office. He even makes house calls to the apartments if a pt. is having some serious problem or needs a pain shot. He does not charge extra for all this attention, it is part of the package deal.

What does he do the rest of the time? Well, we know from some of his postings on his own webs site, that he spends a lot of time on the computer, responding to e-mails, and reading the stats of how many "hits" his web site gets, reading and responding to other web site postings about adhesions. What else? He says he is gathering data for his report, which is to be published, maybe he is working on that. When is it going to be published?
If anybody knows, please tell me.

So what else does he do? He goes to professional meetings and congresses, all over the world. That is important to him, but expensive. The money has to come from somewhere! He told me that he always flies first class.

What is my point? Why is he so readily available to pts. in the apts if they call him, or e-mail him? Maybe because when he is not at the Emma Clinic, he has very little else to do, and he is just over in his office, working on the computer, trying to get more and more patients?

When I was there in Germany, Dr. K. told me personally that he had a plan to buy the entire apt building, and to have his own operating room and recovery room in the apartment bldg, and pt rooms on the ground floor. He spoke of his vision of a very large number of patients coming from the US to him. It seems that has not happened. At that time (3 years ago), there was no mention of a third look. People were supposed to be cured if they had no adhesions on the second look, and the Spray Gel was supposed to prevent further adhesions from occcuring.

But unfortunately, for many pts, adhesions came back, or were not all removed. Third look, fourth look, fifth look , etc. were/are required for many folks. And some patients developed umbilical hernias, near or at the site where the abdolift was placed.
So it seems that abdolift and spray gel and his surgical skills are not the panacea he expected them to be. That is unfortunate for all.

Maybe all the people that went to him since he started using SprayGel and abodlift were all in a research project! He will probably publish the report, eventually. It will probably say that on the second look, 90% of the patients were adhesion-free. It will probably not say that some people went back multiple times.

I do not want to discredit those people who say they are fine, or greatly improved. I hope they are. What I do not understand is why patients are so reluctant to say that they went back, or that they have to go back, and that they are secretive about the fact that they did go back.