He has helped me cope with bursitis pain in hips and low back region. His primary prescription has been strengthening and a steroid injection, but he has been outspoken about there being no "silver bullet" treatment and that core strengthening and stretching from mild, preferably aquatic exercise is a better treatment than drugs and will produce better long term results. He suggests OTC meds (Advil, Aleve, etc) where they will work as lower cost alternatives to prescription meds that often contain the same active ingredients. He is plain-spoken and direct. I thought he was very helpful, personable and polite. I share his (apparent)concern about pain clinics who get patients hooked on narcotics. In my opinion too many of them are just enablers. I do not find it hard to believe that he was not willing to treat a condition that he could not objectively diagnose. I DO find it very hard to believe he would be gratuitously rude about it. That would be contrary to my experience with him.

Submitted Oct. 7, 2013

Incompetent and rude. He could not figure out how to treat my arthritis. I always felt worse after going to see him. He would make these off the cuff remarks, like maybe it's cancer that's eating my bones from the inside out. If he thought that it was cancer then he should have referred me to an oncologist, but he didn't do that. He just had a terrible bedside manner and didn't care what he said. Totally indifferent to my feelings. I told him that I was going to a pain relief clinic. I was surprised to see that he looked upset. Then he said those doctors at the pain clinic haven't been able to help any of my other customers, Oh, I mean patients. They can't help you, I can't help you, no one can help you, maybe you should go to a psychologist. When I left his office, my husband who heard his angry comments said, "Don't go back to him, it is obvious that he is looking at you like a dollar sign, he doesn't have the answer for your health problems."

Submitted April 26, 2007