I asked for Dr. Spatzeler at Barrows because of the info I has seen here. I was told Dr. Spatzeler only does surgery on aneurysms now. We have two neurosurgeons at Barrows. Please know that Barrows is a teaching institute - meaning much care is by residents- and secondly, you can not, no matter what doctor you have, talk to your doctor when there is an emergency. You have to call the institute, deal with the desk people that work for your doctor, and if you need an appt, most likely have to go to the er unless you can wait over a month. In an emergency odd hours, you will talk with the doc on call, they will not get ahold of your doctor, and you will be told to go to the er. We were not seen in emergency yesterday, our neurosurgeon and her secretary are not in today nor are they available for calls, and despite efforts by others there at Barrows, they cannot get past the oncall telephone doctor who will only state for my son to go to er. My son is there now with an appt for neuro testing and I am hoping this doctor is telling my husband whether we need to be concerned about this latest development. We may have to go to an er at someplace else to get help if it is needed - this after being told by Barrows that this is a very serious condition that needs to be handled as csf leak is open pathway to brain for bacteria. Hopefully, they are wrong as the docs there for us have agreed on very little.
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I asked for Dr. Spatzeler at Barrows because of the info I has seen here. I was told Dr. Spatzeler only does surgery on aneurysms now. We have two neurosurgeons at Barrows. Please know that Barrows is a teaching institute - meaning much care is by residents- and secondly, you can not, no matter what doctor you have, talk to your doctor when there is an emergency. You have to call the institute, deal with the desk people that work for your doctor, and if you need an appt, most likely have to go to the er unless you can wait over a month. In an emergency odd hours, you will talk with the doc on call, they will not get ahold of your doctor, and you will be told to go to the er. We were not seen in emergency yesterday, our neurosurgeon and her secretary are not in today nor are they available for calls, and despite efforts by others there at Barrows, they cannot get past the oncall telephone doctor who will only state for my son to go to er. My son is there now with an appt for neuro testing and I am hoping this doctor is telling my husband whether we need to be concerned about this latest development. We may have to go to an er at someplace else to get help if it is needed - this after being told by Barrows that this is a very serious condition that needs to be handled as csf leak is open pathway to brain for bacteria. Hopefully, they are wrong as the docs there for us have agreed on very little.
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