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> If they had followed the wait and see approach there's a good chance she might be blind right now.

Operating on a brain unnecessarily has its own risks.

Indeed, as someone who's had a close family member require brain surgery in the past, I would caution people against thinking of it like any other surgery. The equivalent of "a lingering stiffness" or "Skin tightening because of scar tissue" becomes something else entirely when talking about the brain, and by extension the mind.

Hospitals can be a pretty dangerous place. You're a braver person than I if you're willing to treat a likely benign and possibly asymptomatic meningioma without fully investigating the lesion, including rate of progression.

And you don't think it may have something to do with the amount of lawsuits that is open to them if they make a mistake? We can't claim that the thought/idea of a lawsuit over a medical mistake looming is always 0, because it isn't. Even on a sub-conscious level, it affects and weighs in on the medical practitioner's diagnoses.