Today was my 7th visit at least with Dr. Johnson and I have always thought he was arrogant. During my visit today, just because I was in more pain than before, he just fired at me all kind of assumptions and suddenly shouted "politely" that HE is NOT a pain management specialist and added that HE and I have communication problem and then shouted, not as politely, that HE had no time to explain. This is when I stood up and said "goodbye doctor, you now have plenty of time". It is worth mentioning that he was well dressed compared to his casual jeans-like looks during my last visits. I want to believe he was in a rush for an event but I am not one who assumes although I read other reviewers who described Doctor Johnson in the same way I have experienced.

1st couple of visits, Dr. Johnson suggested a series of 3 shots in my lower back. Once the shots were done and follow up visits were over with, I had more pain which is why I visited him today.

Him being arrogant and assuming that perhaps I am blaming him for the pain changed him completely and claimed that we have a communication problem (he said he doesn't understand what I am saying when I stood up and placed my hand where it hurts the most)!

At every visit since the beginning, he told me to let him know if I am feeling better (if the pain is less or more), but today, when I used his same words describing the pain except I said "the pain, IT is getting worse", he transformed to this polite monster and started firing things like "IT, what is IT" and "the spine can't feel, or get sad or be happy"! Basically, he was expecting me to say "I am feeling worse in my lower back area" rather than what I said "the pain is getting worse". I should have said that I wasn't visiting him for my doctorat en littérature anglais (in french) but I am not the rude type and didn't think of it at the time.

I have done everything he asked me for including a CT scan for my lower back and a recent CT scan for my upper spine near the neck area. Regardless of the pain that I am feeling which is worse than before, I was still happy to have him as a doctor.

I believe he is the type that gets offensive when a procedure he performs does not give HIM the results he likes to see and when a patient is hurting, not necessarily from the procedure he performed, his weakness is to prove that he is NOT a pain management doctor although nobody and certainly not myself mentioned anything about pain management. This is when I totally got lost in what he was trying to say and prove and walked out.

Submitted April 22, 2016