For some older patients, being prepared is especially crucial.
Doctor talking to her male senior patient at office
Before undertaking surgery, here’s what experts recommend you ask.
“It’s a pain that leaves me hardly able to do anything,” he said.
Should McMahon, a retired Virginia state trooper who now lives in Southport, North Carolina, try spinal fusion surgery, a procedure that can take up to six hours? (Eight years ago, he had a lumbar laminectomy, another arduous back surgery.) Continue reading
