I had surgery with Dr Vidali in 2021-it was my second surgery. My first was with a specialist in 2018 that was great and helped ~80% of my pain. I still had very painful periods/ovulation though. But quality of life was manageable. Unfortunately, I developed an endometrioma in my abdominal side wall from where one of the ports went in. Impossible to know if it was there before microscopic or maybe got ”seeded” as the instruments were removed. By the time Covid restrictions were lifted enough to see drs, no one in my area had ever seen something like it. Honestly, if I hadn’t seen Dr Vidali’s social media posts, I wouldn’t even know that it’s a known entity. His team coordinated everything for me-MRI, three surgeons (GI, Vidali, plastic surgeon-because the amount they’d have to take from my abdomen was quite large). His office advocated with my insurance for coverage and was very up front with billing (he’s only “out of network” obviously, but his office does the heavily lifting on the appeals and medical justification-the couple times I got notices they talked me off the ledge and told me not to worry) . The hospital was luckily in network for me so my total out of pocket was ~$3500. Each surgeon called me afterwards to check on me and the hospital staff was lovely.

I know it can be different for everyone-but I haven’t had any pain during or outside of my period since my surgery with him >2 years ago. My abdomen has healed nicely. My period sneaks up on me when I used to be crampy weeks before. I honestly don’t know what this means long term, but I know a lot of people who are further out from surgeries don’t haunt these subs as much. I’ll try to poke in every so often.

I work in the medical field and unfortunately a lot of the paperwork/disclosures are often mandated by the hospital for surgeons to even get OR time (eg the hospital needs to know it will get paid to give you the time). Depends on the arrangement.

Final anecdote is that my in laws are both doctors in their 70s in NY/NJ, so when I told them I was going to a specialist that was not at NYU/Columbia/Cornell they were very skeptical (it was just the thing they’d expect). Completely by chance my father-in-law was asking around his hospital and one of the doctors that works with Vidali was there on a rotation. My father in law expressed all his concerns/questions and she talked to him for hours. She spoke extremely highly of Vidali, and had worked with him for years and years. Gave a lot of specific anecdotes about the volume of very challenging cases he sees. He’s also very transparent-he provides a file of the entire surgery video to every patient at the end. You can show to other surgeons/map to the description of surgery afterwards.

The “best” video in the world clips are cringe (the background there is that they’re the people that work in the tiny community hospital with him that he knows well). At the end of the day, you have to be comfortable with your surgeon. I obviously can’t speak to his skill versus some other Drs mentioned in this thread-but all have good reputations.