I went in for months of on going pain in my wrist that runs all the way up into my shoulder, there is also an unmoving hard lump that is painful on my wrist. The pain at times is to the point where i can’t put pressure on my wrist and there is weakness where I can’t carry anything heavy. My hands go numb sometimes especially when I’ve gone to sleep. All Dr. Veloso did was get some of my info ,tap on my wrists and felt them said it was tendonitis then said he’d give me a medication or deal with it until I can’t stand the pain anymore then can go back to him . Despite the lack of care he was super nice as well as the receptionist . Punctuality is high only because I was the only patient in the office. It was the most pointless appointment I have ever had!! I was in and out in 5 minutes! It took me longer to actually get to the office ! Thankfully I wasn’t traveling from a town hours away or else I’d be more ticked off than I am !

Submitted April 18, 2024

He needs to retire. Massive misdiagnosis and very costly delay in treatment. Please wait for someone else. You will be better off..

Submitted April 18, 2024

He has no clue what he was talking about. Went in for tingling in my hand and he wanted me to get test for adhd. This guy is an idiot

Submitted Feb. 28, 2024

One word. Useless as they come. Asked what drug I wanted to take for migraines. I said isn’t that your job to tell me? He showed me to the door. Rude!!

Submitted Jan. 26, 2024

I am stunned that Dr. Veloso is still practicing! I saw him in the 1970’s until I was 17. He entirely misdiagnosed my severe migraines as epilepsy.

He did an EEG and put me on medications and when told they weren’t working he ordered a dosage increase over the phone. I was in Grade 9. Not too long after, my school called my parents. My teachers reported I had a drug problem and appeared stoned after I walked into the window next to the door I thought I was walking through. Thankfully, even though it was the 70’s and everyone was doing drugs, my parents knew I wasn’t. We went straight to the ER. The epilepsy drugs, at the high dosage I was on, had apparently built up in my blood to the point where they could be fatal. I was admitted to the hospital for a week!
But still trusting I had epilepsy, we still went to this specialist who did periodic EEG’s and changed medications for the next four years. I finally pretended they were working and controlled my epilepsy after getting tired of having a learner’s license for 2 years longer than everyone else.

I thank my mother for finally deciding enough was enough. She took me to Saskatoon to see a neurologist at the University Hospital. He looked at my records and EEG’s and listened to my symptoms and immediately told us I had classic migraine symptoms. It was pre-internet. The general public wasn’t aware that migraines were much more than extremely severe headaches and that pain didn’t always accompany the symptoms. The days sparkly blank spots blocked all but my peripheral vision, the days I felt numbness on one side, etc. were not a separate condition on their own. And the other days when I felt fine and then I suddenly vomited, complained of a bowling ball crashing around in my skull, and needed to be absolutely still in total darkness, weren’t just normal headaches. They were all migraine symptoms, even on the days pain didn’t follow. Any neurologist should have recognized the classic symptoms.

But the kicker was - he told me that Dr. Veloso had been correct in telling me the EEG’s showed my brainwaves were abnormal. BUT - they were unusually calm compared to the norm. As far as possible from the unusually spiky and erratic brainwaves that could have been an indication of epilepsy. My tests were at the opposite extreme from those of people with epilepsy!

Over the last almost 50 years, I have continued to suffer migraines. After I left my teens, it became exceedingly rare for me to have days where an aura wasn’t always followed by a full-blown debilitating migraine complete with severe pain. Thousands of painful migraines later, there is no question that every symptom I went to see Dr. Veloso for was a migraine.

A neurologist who for four years couldn’t recognize descriptions of classic migraine auras and who diagnosed epilepsy based on brainwaves that were pretty much the farthest they could be from those of someone with epilepsy, shouldn’t have been practicing in that field. And to find out he still is?! It is most definitely time for him to retire. From reading his mixed reviews I suspect there are one or two conditions he is good at spotting. But that isn’t of any use for the majority who he sees who have one of the myriad other neurological conditions that he can’t properly diagnose.

Submitted May 20, 2023

This doctor should just quit. He screwed my life for 5 yrs. Telling SGI I had seizures about 3 x a week. Never had a seizure in my life thank God. I had brain surgery in BC and veloso assumed I did. There went my 1A drivers license. I had to prove that I didn't have seizures. Took 5 years out of my driving career. I eventually proved it and got my license back after fighting for 5 years. He doesn't care about anyone. Should retire like the other person said. Don't go there.

Submitted April 7, 2023

Just keeps upping my dosage for the meds I'm currently taking, even after telling him they aren't helping.

Submitted May 17, 2022

Sweet guy but complete, 100% waste of time, Should retire.

Submitted March 24, 2022

He may be getting up in age but Dr. Veloso knows his stuff. He is always on time, i have never had to wait. I think he may be getting a little hard of hearing, and because of covid he is behind a plastic screen and I am wearing a mask, and I have to repeat a few comments now and then. What he has prescribed me is working perfect.

Submitted March 11, 2022

Dr. Veloso had been assigned to me after having some issues and being hospitalized. In the beginning he seemed knowledgeable and I was just happy to start getting relief. But when I came to him with concerns he never seemed interested. After 3 months of taking the last pill concoction he prescribed, I told him how it made me feel like a zombie-all I did was sleep and gain weight- and his response was "but are you in pain?" He refused to try any other approach. Just take the pills and deal with it type of attitude. I never went back.

Submitted Sept. 7, 2021