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Richard Berger
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200 1st Ave NW Dept Ors Rochester, MN 55901
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Took 2 hours for him to enter the room after my appointment time....can you say, unbelievably rude? So he basically says the MRI's show the issues, but its not something he can do anything about. He then said the bone scan showed diffused areas "lighting up" throughout ALL of the joints of my hand/wrist - which could be from something like Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus, Lyme's Disease etc etc (which are things he doesn't deal with and I am pretty darn sure I don't have as I don't have the other symptoms from those things) but he wanted me to get a bunch of blood tests to rule those things out and he would mail me the results - WTH? so I said "No, I will get the blood work done at home." I mean what is the point of that? Its not like I am going to commute another 16 hrs - yes! that is how long it took us round trip to drive there, so to go back and see someone else at that facility for whatever the blood results show (or don't) is nutz -what a crock! I think that telling someone "there is nothing we can do" should be reserved for people with terminal illnesses - saying it in any other case is just messed up.....you should always have something or someone to refer people who are in pain to even if there is nothing "you" can do to help them! Certainly not expect them to "cope" and find a way to deal with the pain on their own.He said the bone cysts are NOT in locations that "should" be causing the pain I have - and the other cysts within the wrist joint (outside the bone) are in "bad" locations surgically where the possibility for nerve damage during the surgery doesn't outweigh the probability for it resolving my pain - so its too much of a long shot to be worth doing. He said if I had tendinitis like 2 of the 3 other surgeons have said then the MRI should have shown fluid in the tendon sheath - and it doesn't. If I had a split tear/T.I.L.T. then I should have instability, which I don't.....so basically he is saying the other 3 surgeons I've seen were ALL wrong...yet he has no answers either......omg, I would laugh - but it would only lead to more crying....this royally sucks....I just wanted 2 of these "specialists" to agree! Then he ended up giving me a speech about how, "Sometimes there are situations where we cannot conclusively say what the cause or origin of a person's pain is. Sometimes the pathways of the nerve receptors can get rewired to send pain signals to the brain when there is no obvious cause for the pain. In those cases there is nothing we can do, as surgeons we can only treat "known" causes. We can only wait and see if a definitive cause presents itself in the coming months or years so we can re-look at the case and see if something can be done with the new information." He went on and on with other non-helpful comments that seemed to only be about "him" and how frustrating it was for "him" to not be able to help people in these cases - but I didn't process most of it because I was too busy going "into shock" that he was actually going to send me away and NOT offer me any recourse other than "go home and be in pain and see if it gets worse- then let us know"...I mean where were the referrals to someone who "could" help me? It took me a year to get in to see him, and that is all I get?
by Unconscionable
July 15, 2011
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200 1st Ave NW Dept Ors, Rochester, MN 55901