My 23-year-old daughter Katie had surgery at Boston Childrens under the care of Dr. Smith, Dr. Scott's protege, on November 6, 2007.  Dr. Smith was wonderful and the team at Boston took great care of us.  I can't say enough about how reassuring the whole hospital stay was.  As mom staying by Katie's bedsite, I was treated to a massage.

Surgery was Tuesday and we were home in Philadelphia by Saturday evening. It was amazing.

Hi I  have apointment with Dr. Smith at Boston Childrens. Just wanted to find out whether any one else had any experience with Dr. Smith like how many surgeries Dr. Smith has performed etc. Does Dr. smith basiccally does the sugeries now or are Dr, Smith and Dr. Scott both does same number of surgeries?? Any help appreciated ; 6yr old girl with MoyaMoya diagnosed Aug 6th 2008 Sabrina,s Dad.

My experience with BCH and especially with Dr. Smith was not as good as everyone else and I am trying so hard to understand why.
BCH had my niece’s file for 12 weeks actually we are going into 13 weeks now. I was really getting fed up with the lousy treatment from the international office, because my niece comes from Kuwait. We had to deal with the international office first, which was an absolute nightmare.
For that reason, I tried to email Dr. Smith because his email address was available on the hospital website. He was kind enough to tell me to contact his assistant because he does not deal with patients.
I am still in shock by the way his assistant has treated me. She wouldn’t co operate in any way. She told me if I ever to contact Dr. Smith she will ‘jeopardise my niece’s’ chance of getting the treatment. She was writing in capital blocks which mean she was shouting.
When finally decided to go to another specialist and everyone was so amazing to us. The lady in the international office would call and email me on a daily basis. We had my niece appointment schedule ready in quarter of the time we wasted with BCH.
I am still trying so hard to understand why people get different treatment. Is it because of where they come from? I would really like to know.  Maybe Dr. Smith is a good doctor, I do not know. But the administrative part of the hospital is definitely not.

My son Mark is 6 yrs old too.  He had his revascularization surgery by Dr Smith on 2/5/10.  He is just about fully healed and doing incredibly well.  Dr. Smith and his neurological team at Childrens are all wonderful.  The surgery went faster than expected, finished in about 6 hrs which was suppose to be an 8 hour surgery.  I do not have any complaints with my experience at Childrens.  All of the staff members are great as well.  Mark has his follow up CAT scan in July then we meet with Dr Smith again as well as a stoke specialist, Dr Rivkin.