Owen Tripp

You know, by the time that I reached that ENT, you know, the audio tests had showed that I had significant hearing loss in my right ear.

And what an MRI would confirm was this mass that I just described to you, which was quite large.

It was already about a centimeter large and growing into the inner ear canal.

That's exactly right.

Yeah, very few.

And without sort of putting your listeners to sleep too early in our discussion, what I'll say is that, you know, there are a lot of ways that you can actually do this.

There are very few cases.

Any any approach really requires that.

either shrinking or removing that tumor entirely, you know, my size of tumor meant it was really only going to be a surgical approach.

And there I had to decide amongst multiple potential approaches.

And this is what's interesting, Eric.

You know, you started saying you wanted to talk about the patient experience.

You have to understand that

I'm somebody, well, not a doctor.

I lead a very large healthcare company.

We provide millions of visits and services per year on very complex medical diagnoses down to more standard day-to-day fare.

And so being in the world of medical complexity was not daunting on the basics, but then I'm the patient.

And now I have to make a surgical treatment decision

amongst many possible choices.

And I was able to get multiple opinions.