Dr. Greenwald preformed a cervical fusion on me and failed to tell me that the fusion never worked. He just told me it was fine, so i kept working out. All the while my neck had not fused and after 18 months of incresing pain and agony he again took new pictures and declared my neck was fine and suggested i get a epidural shot in the adjacent vetebrae for the pain.
The doctor who i saw to get the shot took one look at the pictures and gave me the news that my neck was not fused! After almost two years of agony i then saw three other neuro surgeons all of whom in a matter of a few minutes declared my neck not fused. They were looking at the same pictures, four doctors all saw the problem, the guy who did the work could not.
I don't know what it takes for a doctor to be considered incompetant but based on my experiance i would say he qualifies.
In addition, he did not even want to see me after the original surgery and had signed the discharge papers without ever coming to my hospital room to tell me how the surgery went. I guess poor beside manner is no call for being called a rip off, but not admitting an obvious failure sure is.
Had he simply been honest with me i would have avoided 3 plus years of misery, plus the significant damage that was done to my neck while i was working out with a failed fusion.
I needed two additional spine surgeries to get it fixed and as a result of all the trauma will never be the same.
I was asked by the surgeon who fixed me to complain to the calif state medical board which i did. They found his post operative care to be poor. What a joke, he knew my neck never fused 120 days after the initial surgery, but didn't want to deal with or take responsibilty for it so he let me suffer!
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