Canada Surgeons

[canucklehead]

I contacted the Canadian Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons. This is what I received. Encouraging.





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Dr Carl Brown, Manoj Raval and Terry Phang are colorectal specialists familiar with the Bascom technique for pilonidal disease. You would need to have a referral sent from your family doctor with your medical information. Their office tel. number is 604-806-8711, fax 604-806-9604.




Sincerely,


Jasmin Lidington
Executive Director
Canadian Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons
774 Echo Drive
Ottawa, ON K1S 5N8
tel: (613) 730-2576
fax: (613) 730-1116
e-mail: jlidington@rcpsc.edu

[NorthernGirl]

Another poster thought that Dr. Stephen Martin in Peterborough might be performing cleft lifts. His office number is 705-876-4534. If anyone does speak with him, and finds out if he performs cleft lifts, please post it on here.

[Needasurgeon]

I recently wrote to Dr. Martin, and his receptionist replied stating that he was semi-retired, and no longer performed cleft lifts.

[calimedeiros]

i live in toronto, just had my surgery done in brampton by dr malik, seemed pretty good, i guess he also specilizes in this type of surgery

[Toronto_guy]

Originally Posted by comforting sounds

If anyone North of Toronto is looking for a great surgeon for an excision you should definitely check out Dr. David Weizman in Vaughan. His office is right at Keele and Rutherford and he does surgery at York Central Hospital (which is on Major Mac between Bathurst and Yonge). He was very knowledgeable, easy to talk to, and has one day a month where he does Pilonidal surgeries all day. He is a general surgeon but specializes in Laparoscopic, Endoscopy and Colorectal surgery. I seriously cannot have enough good things to say about him. I had been to a number of doctors and surgeons trying to find someone who seemed competent and knew their stuff with do my excision and was so happy to meet him. Not only was he great, his receptionist was the nicest person ever!! The next available date for my excision (about a month away) was a few days before my birthday, and she insisted that I shouldn't have my birthday ruined and managed to squeeze me in for surgery THE VERY NEXT DAY! I went in for the appt at 4 on one day and was having surgery the next morning at 11! I know I was lucky to get squeezed in, but even his 1 month wait time was better than the 3 - 4 month waits I had heard everywhere else. It was 3 weeks and 2 days from the time I went to my doctor asking for another referral until the day I had surgery.

The only concern I had going in was that he only did local anesthetic. I asked if I could get general and he said if i felt very strongly about it then it could be arranged but he recommended local because it was a lot more comfortable in the hours after the surgery. I trusted him and I would actually recommend it after experiencing both. I had a general anesthetic for my drainage and woke up in a lot of pain and couldn't move or walk or do anything for about 45 minutes. I felt woozy and out of it for hours, but with the local just hopped off the table and got dressed and took enough painkillers that I didn't even notice when the numbing wore off and hour or two later.

I've had 3 different home care nurses and each one has commented on how neat and well done the excision was. So anyone north of Toronto who doesn't want to wait 5 months for Dr. Nancy Down or doesn't want to take a chance with an unknown surgeon, get your doctor to refer you to Dr. David Weizman!!!

I am going to try and get a referral to this doctor since I wasn't entirely comfortable with the surgeon I was sent to initially. Does anyone else in the GTA have a recommendation for a surgeon?

Also calimedeiros, what type of surgery does Dr. Malik perform?

[calimedeiros]

the one i had was just a removal and skin shift, not sure what he does, but i feel good soo far

[sk4416]

Hello,

I am wondering if anyone can kindly give me some more information on Dr. Cathy Hsu...I tried google and found limited information. I am looking for any doctors/surgeons in canada who can perform the pit piking or cleft lift surgery for my 17 year old daughter who is suffering with this......please any information would be suffice.

Thanks so much!

[twotieralltheway]

After being told by a public health care surgeon that i would have to wait 6 months to get my surgery for my pilonidal sinus, I decided to go private.

I had it done in Montreal at the Westmount Surgical Center:

http://www.wssurgical.com/

My surgeon was Dr. Tchervenkov, a very reputable surgeon who specializes in this kind of surgery. He did an open wound style surgery, and it's now been 2 months since and I've had no infection and it's almost completely healed. The surgery is not that expensive (1800$), and it was a really reassuring environment to be in pre and post-op. I really recommend getting a consult there if you need surgery because they will operate within the month. Dr. Tchervenkov comes every Friday in the morning, so you can book a consultation then.