Should I be worried about this?

Did you go over this with your Dr.?

I was in the hospital and don’t remember what he said.

Can you call him?

No he was just a Hospitalist

You should still be able to call him even if he’s a hospitalist. To do so, you can try calling the hospital and ask them to transfer you to the hospitalist on-call.

You should be able to take the report to your primary care doctor and discuss the results.

Once you are discharged from the hospital, a Hospitalist is not in charge of your care any longer and that is why after discharge you are often referred to follow up with specialists and also your PCP.

Should I be worried about this?

I don't think the two items you have circled are related. The thickening in the abdominal muscles, based on where it's located, is most likely scar tissue - probably from the gallbladder removal (cholecystectomy) and they were also ruling out the image being from sutures from your current surgery, since both of those use an instrument that goes in through the belly button (umbilicus).

Those findings wouldn't be critical, so they wouldn't need to be reported to the hospitalist right away by the radiologist, unless it was to alert them of any sort of pain management protocol to order and have on hand for you ASAP. Scar tissue/adhesions make healing from additional surgery more difficult and painful, but again, I don't think that would be a critical result. ??‍♀️

The good news is, they would need to treat you for anything critical before release and get it under control, so at that point, you would be okay. For your peace of mind though, call and ask your PCP. No harm in that!

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RNY 1/5/2005
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