Surgery in Chicago? | The J-Pouch Group

Sara14Member

Did any of you have your surgery in Chicago? I live in Indiana and am also looking into Cleveland Clinic, but I realized Chicago is closer (3.5 hours), and I know they also have a highly rated GI and colo-rectal department. I saw they use robotic surgery. I don't know much about that. Chicago is letting me do a virtual GI consult and got me in already June 10, while Cleveland is making me drive there. I was shocked they could get me in with an IBD specialist so soon.

If anyone has any input into UChicago Medicine, please let me know. Thanks!

6/1/2110:30 AM

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Robotic surgery has less mess ups than hand assisted surgery. In robotic surgery, they use a robot to do the surgeries. There are way less failure rates with robotic, mine was robotic

6/1/212:10 PM

woogyMember

I see Dr. Stephen Hanauer at Northwestern and had my j-pouch surgery with Dr. Scott Strong at Northwestern. Both great doctors. Dr. Strong came here from the Cleveland Clinic.

6/3/212:02 PM

Sara14Member

Thank you.

6/3/212:34 PM

SimonwMember

I had it done at Rush in 2008 with dr. Theodore Saclarides, great surgeon and great person.

6/5/217:43 AM

Sara14Member

Thank you for the response! I will look him up.

6/17/2111:51 PM

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