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Originally Posted by GDB
Annapurna suggested Doctors Clavel and Bertagnoli as two excellent options.
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To be honest, I suggested those two because, if remember correctly, both offer remote diagnosis through film review and phone call/Zoom/whatever. I wouldn't fear to have either work on my back but the remote diagnosis is what I was thinking of for them.
We just had another member on the board have everything ready to go and was about to board the plane to see Clavel for a revision only to have Spain refuse to allow her to enter the country. I was thinking that getting a remote diagnosis might, stress might, allow you to argue with whatever country you need to travel to that you need the surgery and only a world-class surgeon could do it.
The explanation is to head off any arguments over merits of individual surgeons - if you're going overseas, you're going to have to work around COVID travel restrictions. That adds a layer of requirements onto an already complicated task of picking a surgeon who you'd trust.
As for Ritter-Lang - there was a time that anecdotes shared about him were flat-out scary. You can probably find them here or elsewhere online. I've not heard much about him lately so I can't tell if he's cleaned up his act or all of the spine patients that come to this board have chosen to exclude Ritter-Lang based on what's been shared here.