I had intermitent pain for 5 years in my hip. After 5 years, it got worse and was unbearable for 80% of the time. I was a nurse for 30 years. I had to stop working due to a stroke which left me impaired in expressing myself and understand exactly what is being said. My MD referred me to a doctor that couldn't figure out if the pain was from my back or hip. He was terrible. My neighbor convinced me to see her back Dr., Her back Dr. referred me to Dr. Huntoon,(the wife), who refered me to her husband for injections. Mrs. Dr Huntoon was wonderful.
When I arrived at the appointment, the nurse Dana was awesome. Then a Dr. came in for me to sign a consent. For some reason, my contrast allergy did not show in their paperwork. I explained that his wife prescribed me prednisone which I took and in the past, had no problems with. He came in with another Dr. (now 3 Drs.) and questioned me about my past treatments. I said that I had a hip injection and he asked how I knew that and I said I watched it and the Dr. explained and showed me what he was doing. Dr. Huntoon laughed and said "in 30 years I never had a patient tell ME where their injection was" And he was actually mocking me! But quickly he went into the exam. When he pressed on my hip it was extremely painfull. I said "that is horrible pain!" I stopped his hand and he just kept on pressing. Again he quickly had me up on the table . After his exam, his student which he did not introduce as a student, examined me. They talked to each othe and decided on a different procedure then the one I was set up for. He said they were going to inject my SI joint. This confused me and I asked if he saw my MRI which said my SI joint was fine. Over the years, I had 4 Drs. and 4 X-rays and 2 MRIs that said my SI joints were normal. Now I was very confused. He was pompus and rude. In the treatment room I was placed on my stomach . He told me that I couldn't watch and my head needed to be down. Here's the kicker..he said to one of the Drs no contrast. NO CONTRAST! I was prepted for it. By now the needle was being inserted and I did could not express my concern about not using contrast. My body is precious to me and I didn't want a needle going in without contrast to make sure of the placement. The worst part was HE DIDN'T EVEN DO THE INJECTION!!! Here. he was teaching someone was not doing it correctly and he had to correct the student!! I was NEVER asked permission for an intern to do this. If it was in the consent, no one told me. I have been to plenty of teaching hospitals and they always truthfully introduce them as interns and ask for permission to be in the room and assist. I was always given the choice. Not with Dr. Huntoon. Here, an intern did the procedure with NO contrast to verify where the needle was placed and I certainly did not trust Dr. Huntoon. let alone some one I didn't even give permission to touch me. I am so upset that I never processed all of this to say no. You go to

Drs. with trust. I will never evermore. I don't care how much experience or how good he was. I do not trust somesome who treats me rudely and hands my procedure to someone else without my knowledge and permission.

Submitted Jan. 10, 2020

I was referred to Dr. Huntoon because I have significant chronic, daily pain related to my chronic inflammatory disease, surgical wounds that never completely healed, and cancer. In my experience, you'll wait between 1-2 hours minimum for a procedure to begin and expect to spend around 2.5-3.5 hours total time from arrival at the front desk to actually leaving the building; additionally, Dr. Huntoon himself spends VERY LITTLE time with his patients (<5min) after the initial new patient intake appointment. You'll spend 99% of your time at all future appts with his staff, who thankfully ARE truly wonderful, friendly, and caring people. In contrast, Dr. Huntoon is NOT very compassionate at all, though he is polite. I gave one star for helpfulness for the following reasons: 1) Unwillingness to listen to/consider the concerns of patients, 2) does NOT actively involve patients in the treatment decisions/planning of their care [in this case, pain management], 3) after months of the same treatment (the very first procedure he had even tried with me), which took hours to do and only offered pain relief lasting from a few hours to about a day, Dr. Huntoon finally decided to stop giving me the procedure, but then scheduled me for a follow-up 2 months later, without any discussion whatsoever. No suggestions whatsoever for any possible alternative methods/procedures/anything at all to address my daily, chronic pain while I wait 2 months for another appt.

When I first met him, he seemed very knowledgeable (he informed me that he used to work for the Mayo clinic) and reasonably friendly. But he was in and out in about 10 min, which seemed rather short for a new patient appt., and didn't provide me with enough time to really discuss the nature/quality of my pain (perhaps they just depend on the couple forms they make you fill out about it), or any treatment possibilities beyond the very first treatment he wanted to try on me. And now that this first treatment has failed to provide meaningful pain relief, I'm left to wait for 2 months without any form of pain relief to get another appt to even discuss what other treatment option they want to try out on me next (and then have to wait at least a week for another appt to even start the new procedure/treatment). While his educational background and previous employers would seem to indicate a very knowledgeable and respected man, in practice he does not act knowledgeably (and what can you really determine about someone's breadth of knowledge when they speak with you for so little time?), but worse than that, in my experience, he just doesn't really care much at all about his patients or try hard at all to help relieve their suffering. I would NOT recommend him to any person in need of a pain specialist.

Submitted June 3, 2015

Dr. Huntoon is a very professional and certainly well educated, top professional in pain management. He is also caring and compassionate. His staff is wonderful. Procedure wait time is long, but that's because he takes so much time with each patient. It's a fair trade off.

Submitted Sept. 27, 2014