[annapurna]

A few years ago the common wisdom was that beginner surgeons should only operate on people who are a little more desperate than you are right now. Four procedures isn't really enough to get a feel for the range of what can happen and people who weren't all that bad off going into the surgery could wind up being worse coming out than they were going in. It's likely, though, training for new surgeons has improved quite a bit from the early days. You might be able to ask him what kind of training he went through to get qualified to do ADRs and see if you could allay fears about his experience.