He wasn’t a surgeon – he drained the appendix without gloves, mask, or any pain meds. You’re right – pathologists examine cells/tissue, so I may have the name mixed up. My sister said they should have removed the appendix. Their plan was to put a drain in it, and then send me on my planned trip to Germany with a drain in my abdomen; she said it was bad practice to send someone with an inflamed appendix out of country with a drain,and they should have immediately removed the whole thing. That’s what they ended up doing, but only because my sister insisted. The pain management was horrible too – I really though I was going to die.
