Lee, I think you’re asking @Peter about Medfind. If you want to ask a specific member you just need to either reply to the specific post or put the “@“ sign and then their name will pop up on the list of responders.
Trying to find a doctor via internet is really difficult and having them tell you the outcomes is probably impossible. Larger cities like Boston will always have more surgeons than rural areas such as where I reside. The large cities also have more patients because for those of us in rural or semi-rural areas we are sent to the big cities for repairs. They also have more funding it seems for the surgeons to do research. I found some surgeons get kudos for just writing a paper with no research involved, so opinion based.
My neurosurgeon was telling us soon after my release from hospital that another patient came in the week after I had my first procedure with the same type of rare aneurysm. She had already told us most patients with a multi lobed aneurysm that ruptures don’t make it. I would always ask about him and one visit she didn’t respond, I don’t think he made it unfortunately. I quit asking.
I do know the hospital she works at allows patients to write comments on the doctors. In the early days, I would see a negative comment or two that my surgeon was speaking over the person’s head. I did notice she started “dumbing it down” so to speak. But we had asked her to for BH who had never taken a class where sheep brains were dissected like I had. Maybe you could look at the responses from other patients. I don’t think my Neurosurgeon is on any list I do know the stars were in alignment when I got her for my Neurosurgeon.
I also found this here Dr. Recommendation - #13 by Ann70nmissouri. There are many more recommendations I’m sure but that’s the one I’ve linked to. I just typed surgeons in Boston with the magnifying glass search feature. You can also scroll down to “Symptoms and Treatments” then click on “Recommended Doctor or Clinic”. You will have to read through a bunch of posts as we don’t have a specific city listing that I know of. I will also try to get more members to respond if that doesn’t help.
I have found many things he’s written or made a video very helpful and extremely informative. Does he mention how to determine if a doctor is a “top doctor”?
I also just found this Data & reports on Serious Reportable Event (SREs) in health care | Mass.gov. You might be able to send an email asking if you can have specific hospital,or doctor information, the other thing I’d ask if they won’t provide it is where you can find it.