Broken ankle - registrar did op

[togoornot]

I broke my ankle 2 weeks ago. It was a serious break - broken in many places and one bone pushed up into another (pilon fracture). I had an operation 11 days ago to fix it with 3 metal plates and 20 screws! I'm slightly concerned it was a registrar who performed my op, rather than my consultant - is that normal?

Goodness me, I really seem to have startd something here which was not my intention .

I know very little about the hierarchy of doctors and always thought it was just consultants who operated. I just wanted a little reassurance after a pretty horrible (and continuing to be horrible for a few months) experience.

TThanks to those of you who gave me that reassurance