I did see Dr. Abdou and I met some of his patients. To their knowledge he is not turning over his cases to a protege, which leaves others in a precarious position. He was the moderator of a panel that my surgeon was also on. He seemed "close to retirement" and I think that you can all figure out what that means. I'm not going to slam a doc that was one of the titans in figuring out these disease but there he answered a few questions twice, didn't stick to his own ground rules for discussion, that kind of thing. Hard to know how much of that is personality of course, but I heard similar tales of forgetfulness from patients.