Agolini Stephano F MD

I had my gall bladder removed in 2011. Dr Agolini was an excellent choice of surgeon. My brother had just had surgery where everything went wrong and I was very nervous. Dr Agolini met with me three times before I finally got the courage to have the surgery. He called me at home the night before my procedure to see how I was doing because he knew how nervous I was. The surgery went as predicted.
The team at Alexandria Hospital was amazing. I had surgery early afternoon, pretty much on schedule and came home that evening. After getting home I had a question and my daughter called Dr Agolini, who was still at the hospital, and he returned our call and answered our questions. The next day Dr Agolini called to see how I was doing. His bedside manner is outstanding. But his expertise as a surgeon is what I admire most.

Dr Agolini really has such an amazing demeanor with his patients. Every time I met with him he asked multiple times if I had any other questions he could answer for me. His waiting room was full for both my office visits but that is to be expected with someone performing as many operations as he is. I only waited 20 min the second time I was there. I think a routinely empty waiting room might be kind of a bad sign for a surgeon actually. By the time I met with him I had been having gallbladder attacks for 7 months. I really really wanted to avoid surgery and prefer alternative therapies whenever possible but it just wasn’t working and I had already lost a significant amount of weight from trying to avoid triggering a gall bladder attack. I scheduled a consult with Dr. Agolini after a coworker recommended him from his appendix surgery. I had already met with another surgeon but did not get a good feeling about him. When I called Dr Agolini’s office Brenda said I could come in the next day but there would most likely be a wait to see him; I was just happy to get in on such short notice. While I was waiting one of the other patients had to leave for work before he was able to get in to see him. He had made his appt the day before like I had. Dr Agolini came out into the waiting room to ask him if he wanted to come in now for a few minutes and apologized profusely for the wait. I had never seen this behavior before from any doctor. My consult went well and I could tell he takes great pride in his work and treats his patients with respect. I felt much better about my surgery knowing he was performing it. After my consult I met 2 other people at the dog park that had their surgeries performed by him and everyone had great things to say. My surgery went well, I can eat again (pain-​free)! and the incisions are incredibly small. I had a slightly longer recovery than some but it is surgery and they are cutting through your abdominal wall so recovery time will vary and it isn’t something to worry about. My dad told me about 20 times how he went camping the day after his gallbladder removal so I guess I was expecting to be ready for a marathon the next day :)

Dr. Agolini performed surgery on me for my gall bladder in October of 2008. He was awesome. Made me feel perfectly at ease with everything. I asked around about him at Alexandria Inova Hospital and everyone there said he was an excellent surgeon and has performed thousands of gall bladder operations. My experience with him was A#1 and I would refer him without hesitation. I had my surgery late in the day — they wanted me to stay overnight but I asked the nurse to get in touch with him and they let me go home at about 11pm. The next day I stayed in bed most of the day but the following day I was up and moving around and even took a walk for about two miles (I was really slow but who cares). Within a week I felt much better and a few weeks later I was back to normal — minus the horrible, debilitating gall bladder pain. The man is an angel! Inova Alexandria Hospital was excellent as well.