What is the Best Hospital for Adrenal Surgery?
If you're reading this post, you or someone you love likely have some type of adrenal disease and your research for adrenal tumor treatment or adrenal surgery has led you here.
So, what is the Best Hospital for Adrenal Surgery?
The best hospital for adrenal surgery, adrenalectomy and adrenal gland removal is the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery.
You may be familiar with the US News and World Report ranking of hospitals in the United States. The hospital ranking is based on research funding, reputational score, and a number of other metrics. This ranking is created using broad categories of care, such as management of patients with cancer, diabetes, heart attack, stroke, hip fractures and psychiatric issues. Adrenal surgery and other endocrine operations (e.g., thyroid and parathyroid surgery) are way too super-sub specialized to have an effect on these ratings. The quality of endocrine surgery is not accounted for in these broad rankings. Typically, the hospitals with the highest rating by the US News and World Report are Mayo and Cleveland Clinics, and university hospitals such as UCLA, Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, MD) and Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA).
There is no ranking for a super-sub specialized field like adrenal surgery or other endocrine operations (e.g., thyroid and parathyroid surgery). Fortunately, we know which is the best hospital for adrenal surgery and other endocrine operations (e.g., thyroid and parathyroid surgery). The best hospital for adrenal surgery, adrenalectomy and adrenal gland removal is the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery. It is also the best hospital in the world for thyroid and parathyroid surgery. The Hospital for Endocrine Surgery is the only super-sub specialized hospital of its kind in the world.
Why is the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery the Best Hospital for Adrenal Surgery?
The Top 6 Reasons Why the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery is the Best Hospital in the World for Adrenal Surgery:
- Dr. Carling, the best and most experienced adrenal surgeon in the world, exclusively operates at Hospital for Endocrine Surgery.
- The Hospital for Endocrine Surgery only takes care of endocrine tumor (i.e., adrenal, parathyroid and thyroid) patients.
- The Hospital for Endocrine Surgery is the cleanest and safest hospital and does not have any patients with Covid-19 or any other patients with infectious diseases.
- All team members including surgeons, anesthesiologists, pathologists, nurses, and technicians take care of more adrenal surgery patients in a week than most hospitals in a whole year.
- There are no students, trainees or residents practicing on you at the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery.
- All equipment including those used in the operating room and for X-ray scans (e.g. CT scan, ultrasound) is brand new and state-of-the-art at the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery.
Figure 1. Dr. Carling in front of the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery on the inaugural day of adrenal surgery.
1) Dr. Carling, the best and most experienced adrenal surgeon in the world, exclusively operates at Hospital for Endocrine Surgery
Dr. Carling moved his world-famous Carling Adrenal Center to Tampa, Florida from Yale University (early 2020) to help develop and build the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery. Dr. Carling performs 5-10 times as many adrenal operations than any of the top 5 hospitals in the US News and World Report ranking. Dr. Carling has dedicated his entire career to the diagnosis and surgical treatment of adrenal gland tumors. Not only is he the most experienced and best adrenal surgeon in the world but he has also published some of the most important scientific research on adrenal tumors. Dr. Carling finds that the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery is the best hospital for adrenal surgery. After spending almost 18 years as the chief of Endocrine surgery at Yale University, he realized that a university general hospital cannot provide the highest level of excellence that patients with adrenal tumors deserve. To be able to provide the very best care, it was obvious that he and his partners needed to develop a hospital that only takes care of Endocrine surgery patients, meaning patients that need surgery for the adrenal, parathyroids, and thyroid diseases.
2) The Hospital for Endocrine Surgery only takes care of endocrine tumor (i.e., adrenal, parathyroid and thyroid) patients
The Hospital for Endocrine Surgery only takes care of patients with endocrine tumors, meaning those that the arise in the adrenal, parathyroid and thyroid glands. A typical university hospital takes care of all sorts of patients including patients with covid-19, infectious diseases, cancer, mental illness, and heart problems. This makes patients with adrenal surgery less of a focus to the doctors and hospital leadership. Furthermore, two major missions of a university hospital are research and education. University hospitals educate medical and nursing students as well as residents and fellows. Recently, a 4th focus of university hospitals is on enhancing equity, inclusion, and diversity and many such large hospital systems are “reimagining health”. All these missions are, of course, valuable, but that means that excellence in clinical care is only one of many missions at a university hospital. Trust me, you want to have your adrenal operation at a hospital which is laser focused on excellence in clinical care and perfect patient outcomes. Too many missions of an organization risk making none of them reach the level of excellence. It is very difficult to be the best in the world on adrenal surgery if you are not 100% committed to the best care and outcome for the adrenal patients. The Hospital for Endocrine Surgery only takes care of endocrine tumor patients. That means we can be completely committed to taking care of you, or your family member, and focusing on the very best outcome after surgery.
Figure 2. The hospital is brand new and beautiful.
3) The Hospital for Endocrine Surgery is the cleanest and safest hospital and does not have any patients with Covid-19 or any other patients with infectious diseases
The only patients that are seen at the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery are patients with endocrine diseases. This is much better for you as a patient. There are no Covid-19 patients in our hospital. In fact, there is no medical ward at all. There are no patients with pneumonias, urinary tractive infections, HIV or any other infectious diseases. Everyone at the hospital is devoted to making your stay the best possible. The Hospital for Endocrine Surgery is brand new and completely renovated and the cleanest hospital we have ever seen. From the operating rooms to the inpatient rooms, which are all private, are just beautiful. At the typical community or university hospital, many patients may linger several days to weeks to be treated for acute and chronic conditions. They may have to wait for short-term rehabilitation services or another placement. They may have resistant bacteria or open wounds. At the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery all patients are relatively healthy and more than 99% of adrenal surgery patients go home within 23 hours of their operation. Since the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery is super-sub specialized, we are all part of one team. We do not separate doctors from the other staff. We lunch together and spend time together. The janitors were hand-picked and do a phenomenal job, and Dr. Carling knows them by name. This is the cleanest hospital in the world.
4) All team members including surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, pathologists, and technicians take care of more adrenal surgery patients in a week than most hospitals in a whole year
There is no risk that any of your team members have to be called away on an emergency or “code”. Your anesthesiologist and the team will be with you the whole time. At the typical university and community hospital, doctors and nurses are being pulled in all sorts of direction. The working environment for all team members at the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery is excellent and everybody is focused on you, your operation, and your recovery. Our team members see more adrenal surgery patients in a week than most hospitals in the whole year. We have seen this before. We have done these operations many times. In fact, you may be number seven or eight of adrenal surgery patients that single day. This is why Dr. Carling can perform adrenal surgery, and adrenalectomies in less than 20 minutes, when the most famous hospitals in the country take 3-5 hours and have to give blood transfusions to one in 20 adrenal surgery patients. If you do not believe me, check out adrenal surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital on their website. Dr. Carling does not lose any blood and has not given a blood transfusion for adrenal surgery in his entire life. (As a side note: If Johns Hopkins Hospital cannot master adrenal surgery, what goes on at your local community hospital down the road, with really good parking?)
It is no surprise that a team which works together day in and day out and do the same kind of tasks (in this case very sophisticated adrenal surgery), work better when they do it day in and day out. If you go to a typical university hospital it is not uncommon that a surgeon has never met the anesthesiologist or the other team members before. This is not good for you. The surgeon may work with different teams and for adrenal surgery, which is rare at most university and community hospitals, it is often “the first time every time”.
Trust me, you do not want to be the patient in the operating room where it is “the first time every time”. At the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery, we are all one team. We work together and we spend time together. Dr. Carling’s adrenal surgery team are all hand-picked. They were all drafted at the top of the first round. Everybody knows each other by first name. We love working with each other and there is perfect harmony as all team members work together like a Vienna orchestra. The adrenal surgery team is awesome!
Figure 3. Dr. Carling and some members of the adrenal surgery dream team.
5) There are no students, trainees or residents practicing on you at the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery
Nobody is practicing on you at the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery. There are no students, trainees or residents operating on you. Dr. Carling (with his adrenal surgery team) performs every single operation, personally. At the typical university hospital, you often have multiple medical students and residents and other trainees taking care of you. This provides a great benefit for the trainees and the government reimburses the university hospitals handsomely to train nurses and doctors. Of course, we are not against people learning. In fact, Dr. Carling has trained hundreds of surgical fellows and residents. However, there is no question that training students and residents make everything slower and less efficient. Adrenal surgery and the Mini Back Scope Adrenalectomy (MBSA) are supremely sophisticated and only the most talented surgeons should attempt training in it. Nobody is practicing on you which makes the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery the best hospital for adrenal surgery.
Figure 4. The surgeons from the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery's expert team includes the world-renowned surgeons of the Carling Adrenal Center, Norman Parathyroid Center, Clayman Thyroid Center and Scarless Thyroid Center.
6) All equipment including those used in the operating room and for X-ray scans (e.g. CT scan, ultrasound) is brand new and state-of-the-art.
The Hospital for Endocrine Surgery is the best hospital for adrenal surgery because all equipment including those used in operating room as well as for CT scans are brand new and the absolute best state-of-the-art quality. It makes a huge difference what kind of instruments are available in the operating room including monitors used to depict your adrenal operation. The Hospital for Endocrine Surgery is a brand new with superb equipment. You deserve to have the very best adrenal operation and that requires the best equipment and tools. Dr. Carling was instrumental in making sure that no costs were spared in equipping the operating rooms for the best success of every single patient.
Figure 5. The operating rooms are outfitted with the latest and best equipment and tools.
Additional Resources:
- Learn more about the Carling Adrenal Center
- Learn more about Dr. Tobias Carling
- Learn more about our sister surgeons at the Norman Parathyroid Center, Clayman Thyroid Center and Scarless Thyroid Surgery Center
- Learn more about the Hospital for Endocrine Surgery