NJ Surgeons

I am in the process of finding a surgeon for a robotic prostatectomy. I've met with Savatta in West Orange and he made a good impression. Will see Esposito out of Hackensack next week and maybe Sawczuk. Can anyone share your experiences with these or others in NJ. Kim at Robert Wood has a nice web site but I haven't found anything else on him.

Not to be silly, but why limit yourself to your area?  Research a doctor, a hospital and get their stats - most are published. See what they have written, where they studied, where they trained.  It's all fairly public info.  If you have to travel and hour or two it's worth it.  I live in NY and travelled to John's Hopkin's in Baltimore because I believed that was the best place for me.  Airfare to Baltimore from NY was only $49 and I had points for a hotel.  My wife and I stayed for several days, a nice vacation!  Ok, NOT a vacation at all but I felt, and still feel, it was what worked for us.  You might want to think outside the neighborhood.

Good luck.

Samadi at Mt. Sinai is great. I drove an hour into the city to get the best. I interviews five surgeons. Orange is only forty five minutes or so, right? I'd seriously look at NYC for some top guys.

I had Lanteri and Esposito and thought they were great. I also went to N.J. cancer institute and John Hopkins In Baltimore for opinions. There are alot of Great doctors in this area you will find the right one for you. Good luck

This is a great thread. I've decided after months of my Dx to have surgery and now I'm weighing open vs robotic. This is a great thread because it shows that we do have alot of choices when it comes to finding good surgeons to perform this operation. Many of the comments are positive about the surgeons that are being used and this helps new members to decide which path to take. One suggestion I would like to make, is it would be helpful in the future if we could all put who our surgeon was and the hospital used in our profiles so that new members could find the best doctor for their situation.

Thanks
Huey

David McGinnis (Bryn Mawr) did mine. He explained that back when he was doing laproscopic he had trained Dr. Lee and then when he went to robotic he had Lee sit in in his surgeries to give him advice. I figured that a doctor who was comfortable enough to ask his student to teach him was my kind of doc.