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| - ok, my original review was censored by yelp- so I have to tone it down- but drop me a note if you want details. Here is an excerpt see if it makes it?
I travel back and forth and have a place in Phoenix and thought since I have a little more infrastructure there, I should have my surgery in AZ. Was referred by my pain doctor here and I was fearful about going under the knife. I needed the surgery, no questions, the pain was just too much, could not sit, could not sleep, ... The surgery was quickly setup and before I knew it it was done-they could not wait to separate me from my money, which I am ok with. The problems all came after. I was in recovery for a week and the pain was just horrendous. I reacted adversely to the drugs and things went from bad to worst. In fairness the doctor tried to help, but once they make their money it is hard to get their attention. The results were very marginal. I even thought about offering my doctor a bonus to make me well, but on my $80K annual salary and his $2M annual salary there was very little I could offer. The service was just not there. At home I had a nurse and a PT come over to help, but the pain continued. 24 weeks into it, I was still in pain. Eventually, I was referred to top doctor who knew his spine. I do not want to make and references to dampen Spine Institute's business or improve the other doctors, but both my pain doctor and I learned a very valuable lesson. If you are going to do surgeries, SIoA is not the best of places. I am sure they have a lot of happy patients and I am an exception, but if you want to take the risk, go with these guys. This was the most pain I had experienced in my life. I gave SIoA 2 stars because the staff was very nice and attentive, the doctors did not paralyze me but the results needed a redo. The second surgery also went in a snap and the recovery was much easier, after about 8 weeks I was back to my regular life that had been on hold for the past 15 years. The second practice I went to really knew what he was doing. Do your homework, a doctor who is more concerned about how his smile looks in the pictures and his $5K suite might have different priorities than you do.
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