What Patients Must Do
Your Anesthesia Experience is In Your Hands
If you now understand that:
• There are anesthetics that are safer, easier on patients and are unlikely to produce unpleasant or dangerous side-effects than those most often used.
• There are inexpensive devices – brain monitors – that can assure your anesthesiologist knows you remain comfortably asleep so you only receive the amount of anesthetic you need.
• There are years of reproducible experiences supporting the effectiveness and safety of The Friedberg Method of Goldilocks Anesthesia.
Here is what you can – and must – do to assure your best anesthesia experience.
You must let your surgeon know that you want the Friedberg Method of Goldilocks Anesthesia. And I have made it easy for you to do that.
I know it can be intimidating or difficult to speak to your surgeon about a subject you are not terribly familiar with, so I have made it easy for you to get the information across to him or her.
The link(s) below will allow you to download some letters. Give them to your surgeon and facility administrator. One letter explains to the surgeon why it is important to you – and to him/her – that your wishes are respected. Another is for your surgeon to send to the anesthesiologist or surgery center. That letter presents your requirement to the anesthesiologist. These two letters direct the doctors to our doctor’s website, www.drfriedberg.com, where they can discover, in scientific terms, the facts and the simple instructions for applying this method.
The last letter is the blow you strike for other patients coming after you, one that kicks the facility administrator in the wallet, and will help promote the needed change to 21st century anesthesia.
Click to download the letters: Surgeon’s Letter and Anesthesiologist’s Letter.
If your requirements for safe anesthesia are not met and you choose to go to another facility (i.e. a hospital, surgery center or surgeon’s office) for your surgery, please download the following letter to the former facilities’ administrator: Facility Administrator’s Letter.