Dr Slabaugh is my mother's surgeon. Her health, due to strokes/age is very precarious. It would have been far easier to just treat her with Rx to keep her comfortable and sedated. She had kidney stones along with high blood pressure, and bleeding factors. This dear man went ahead, after informing our family of all the risk factors (which we were all well aware of), and removed her stones! She is MUCH more comfortable, and we are a very happy family! I would reccommend him highly to anyone, because he did not take the easy way out. Robbin Weir May.