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Originally Posted by Velvet
No surgery! Unless you are in great pain. My mother had one toe done it felt so bad after the surgery she never considered the other toe.
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While I empathize with your mother, it has little bearing on any other pt's decisions...
Every patient is different. Every patient will have a different outcome...
My nightmare patient is one who comes in after seeing her friend's bunion result that was textbook perfect.
The fact that it was only a moderate (but painful) deformity is irrelevant.
The new patient, who has a foot like Fred Flintstone, with a big toe that looks like an opposable thumb "wants exactly what her friend had"...
It's setting yourself up for failure... I politely explain that we're comparing two very different starting points and that you "can't make chick salad out of chicken sh*t" and try to get them to lower their expectations. Most times, I was successful...
God I'm glad I'm winding down my surgical practice and retiring soon!