What dose it mean if your getting a surgery and a doctor tell you have a 10% chance of living?

Surgery Anxiety: I understand your distress. Let Wise Woman in you ask about: • Symptoms for which surgery is recommended? • Your anxiety about Surgery • Can you manage symptoms without Surgery? • Seek Consultation from another Surgeon for benefits and complications of Surgery. If Surgery is not urgent, see a Psychiatrist for Therapy.

Second opinion: You possibly misheard the surgeon. Virtually no operation is worth undertaking with only 10% survival rate. Even the most complex and dangerous operations have a better prognosis than 90% non-survival. You have not shared your diagnosis or kind of surgery needed, but, but second opinion is required whatever it is.