"After 120 years of experience regarding informed consent in America, how can we still be sitting in a place where it's not mandated that patients be told upfront and in writing, WHO intends to be performing their surgery?"
Our names are Todd and Heather Steiger. We're from a quiet suburb outside of Cincinnati, OH and are the loving parents of three loving children. After learning our son became victim to a ghost surgery at The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, it became our mission to inform the public of so many things they're unaware of. We know so many don't know what they need to because we ourselves had no clue despite the fact that our disabled son had been in and out of surgeries from infancy and we're both fairly educated. Like most, because of time and interest, we never found it important to learn and ask questions. That all changed after our lack of knowledge contributed to us and our son being taken advantage of.
It's taken nearly two years to learn what we know now and we still lack knowledge we need. That said, our knowledge and understanding has moved from a grain of sand to an entire boulder. We're still climbing the mountain.
The information on this website took hundreds of hours of reading, researching and collecting. Because of that, we have a more succinct understanding now, near the end of 2021, than we did when most of our website was produced. Over the course of the next few months, we'll be making updates to every subpage of our website. We're aware it's verbose and one of our goals will be to eliminate non-essential information in respect of your time. Please bear with us as we make these changes.