Excellent point, jiffypop!
Surgeons are much like opinions - everyone has one and they're all different. You find the doc who works with you and for you, and it can make a huge difference in how you weather surgery, how you recover, and how successful you are long term. I like my surgeon as a human being, and as a doctor. He lets his patients call his cell phone - requires it, at first. This was the clincher in my choosing him as my surgeon.
Now, if I need something, maybe I call the office if they're there, because the office staff is like my support team. But if it has to do with my stomach and not just "oh hey, I found this jellybean on the floor, can I eat it" (not really), they tell me to call Doc anyway. He's my stomach guy. He went in there, looked it over, did the work. He's like my gut mechanic. So his instructions to me are personalized, and I take them, except when I don't and have to call and tell him that really, I like Click, I'm drinking it, damn the caffeine content.
For example: My surgeon loves G2. He thinks all his patients should live on it for the first weeks after surgery. Well, I am so sick of G2 I am ready to shriek. There is not a flavor left that I can tolerate. So I call up Doc, I'm all "I hate G2. I might hate you for thinking I need G2." He's all "Um, excuse me, Miss Bossypants, but I never said you personally have to drink it forever. If you hate it that much, just get you something nice, no tannins, not so much on the caffeine, add a little sodium and electrolytes and cool your jets."
So I hauled myself over to the Amish store and put together this amazing tea of ginger root (tummy), fennel (tummy), lavender flowers (for my cranky) and a little salt and raw honey. If I like it, I'm making the man a gallon jug and telling him to take his G2 and...yeah. Might be time to change my estrogen patch.
ANYway. Do what your doctor says. If you don't like what your doctor says, ask if you can do something else. What people do with their own docs may or may not apply.
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