Hi,
So I've been doing some research for a while and one thing that concerns me is how doctors divide their work up between assistants and themselves. Well respected doctors that charge a lot appear to have technicians do a large part of the work, which means there is no way of assessing how good they are. The technicians are often nameless, and the results of the doctors posted online may have been completed by well experienced assistants. Then when you go for your HT, you could get a new, inexperienced technician. So this is a variable you can't assess for in decided which doctor to go for.
Some doctors are very transparant in that they make this clear (one doctor has sent me info on a break down of roles in his team), and other doctors explain this on their website. However, others, including some of the best and most expensive are rather more opaque which makes it difficult in deciding.
What do people think about this potential problem? If a doctor with a good reputation was using assistants for large parts of the HT procedure, would you still go with him, giving that you haven no idea which tech you'd get on the day?