Dr. James C. Ballard is an orthopedic surgeon in Tualatin and Oregon City, Oregon. He barely got into Medical School and then he graduated near bottom of class. He is a lying (he lied on my medical chart that he wrote for me, when I came to his office for an appointment) incompetent Doctor who only cares about money. He was banned from the OR (Operating Room) for actions that were dangerous to the patient.
Normally a knee replacement is one 5 day hospitalization and takes about one month to recover 95% from. My left knee replacement took place June 9 and as of today February 16 I have had 3 surgeries, 5 hospitalizations and an
out of pocket cost of $12,654 (normally $1200). The surgeries were due to effusion of blood into my knee joint plus I had a huge blood clot (which Ballard totally missed detecting in my groin area). Just from this clot alone I had to take a blood thinner (Coumadin, which I had to go to the hospital twice a week to have a level measured), I had a 60% chance of dying from clot alone.
My pain every single day is terrible; I barely can walk, cannot ride my bike or drive my car. I cannot drive as I must take morphine and oxycodone (which I hate to take, as it makes me sleepy, itch and I cannot drive). I worked in the Pharmaceutical Industry for 30 years and had to retire.
He always acted so nice to me, when I came to his office or was in the hospital but I found out it was all an act. Even though he acted nice, he wrote on his Medical Records about me: "Michael did not take care of his surgery site" (my wife is an Intensive Care R.N., so she took care of the site), "he did not follow medical orders, he came to my office with dirty clothes, late and did not speak in coherent sentences" (I have worked in the corporate world for almost 30 years and
graduated with M.S.). All he wrote were lies.
As soon as the statute of limitations was up (2 years in Oregon) to take legal action against him, he dropped me as a patient and told the rest of other Orthopedic Doctors not to see me when I had problems with my shoulder. Ballard is a bad Doctor and cannot be trusted. Besides my terrible experience I now many more bad thing about him that I cannot tell here as my wife learned his awful practices privately as she works at the same hospital she works at. He already to have many other Nurses fired.
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