Spent the morning with Dr. Juan Fernando Ramon, neurosurgeon at Hospital Centro de la Policia. (He also operates at two other hospitals). Dr. Ramon is one of only a handful of neurosurgeons in Colombia who performs neuroendoscopy.
We toured the hospital – and then I watched him perform a small procedure for radiculopathy (in a patient with chronic back pain.) The hospital has a fully-equipped $4 million dollar neuro-suite (not seen in photo below.)
The patient kindly gave permission for the use of the photos
Met with Dr. Camilo Osorio, Thoracic surgeon this afternoon, for patient consultations. He was great – spent a lot of time with patients explaining procedures, and answering questions. He also calls all of his patients a few days before and after surgery – just to see how they are doing. I’ll see Dr. Osorio in the operating room soon.
Ran into Dr. Rincon (cardiac surgeon) from SaludCoop – literally. I plan to go back over to SaludCoop and see him and Dr. Mauricio Jimenez again.
I’ve decided to cease my pursuit of Dr. Camilo Prieto- after several emails, phone calls (by other surgeons vouching for me) and a visit – I just have to assume he isn’t interested in participating. I only pursued him so far because besides being heavily advertised, and well-known here, I never actually got to speak to him personally, and never got a “no” from anyone.. But now that others have contacted him on my behalf – I’ll definitely take that as a ‘no’..