Beware Manhattan Center for Pain Management!!!
One good thing that resulted from my recent hospitalization is that I have broken with the pain center where my family doctor had reluctantly sent me. I am now living in a different world. We have cut the dosage of medication so that I can now think clearly. The place was a horror to visit — hours of waiting past appointments, no direct contact with doctors or way to contact them. etc., etc. I was threatened at the end with an $840.00 penalty for canceling an appointment that I had not made — was merely told of by a woman who hung up before I could say that I could not make it and had left them. Her threat came in her call the next day.
They know that I am a blogger and I would imagine that some of this comment would get through. One doctor was helpful when my regular was not available. My doctor wanted me to see Ronny Hertz, but she was away that week.
Be careful where you get your medical care. My wife had the best. My recent experience in our local hospital saved my life. But it was a nut house. It is one of five, I gather, bought up for profit-making. All the good doctors that I know broke their ties and went elsewhere.
Manhattan Center for Pain Management
Since opening in 1992, the Manhattan Center for Pain Management at Roosevelt Hospital has improved the quality of life for thousands of individuals with acute and chronic pain. Directed by Ronny Hertz, MD, DDS, a board-certified anesthesiologist specializing in pain management, the center employs a multidisciplinary approach to diagnose and treat a broad range of problems, including: abdominal pain, back pain, facial pain, neck pain, pelvic pain, arthritis pain, cancer pain, headaches, neuropathies, and shingles. Following an evaluation, we prepare an individualized treatment plan, which may involve a singular technique or a combination of methods to achieve optimal pain relief. These methods include, but are not limited to:
http://www.wehealny.org/services/pain/services.html
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackHi Ed, Thanks for the article about your experience with your health care.
Wanted to tell you about health care in Ontario,Canada.
Tommy Douglas little known but one of the greatest Canadians in history. Developed a health care system that was one of the greatest in the world. Free health care for alll Canadians rich or poor. Now with medicine for profit many doctors goe to states for more money. The government , all parties have ruined or health care. I recentlly battled breast cancer and experienced life threatening side-effects from chemo. I was placed in a storage room. We wait a full day in emergency before recieving care. We literally are dying in the hall ways while beds sit empty + unstaffed. Tommy would be rolling in his grave.
My wife had the best of treatment at Mount Sinai Hospital and lived a happy, active life during her 9 year battle.
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I’m glad you are getting good pain relief.
Try being a rural doc with the pain center 59 miles away, and trying to adjust the medicine yourself because “contract health services” consider pain care to be a class II or three, and we had more urgent cases to use our limited budget on.
As for profit: Don’t ask me. I went broke treating the uninsured in private practice, which is why I went into government work.
I don’t understand your posting about the Manhattan Pain Center. Are you praising it or panning it? I can tell you that my experience with this Center has been horrendous. The office is a bunch of incompetents so much that I was dragged through hell for 3 months dealing with insurance problems. They lied to me numerous times, as I double checked everything they said with the insurance company. Avoid this Center if you can, as these people are rude and deceitful, and I don’t even know why.
i was sent to the manhattan center for pain management over a YEAR ago. Had soulder surgery…slap tear repaired…somehow the muscles/neuritis, burcitis was addressed..but then they gave me a shot in the front of my chest…I ended up in the emergency room-2 shots of morphine and sent home.
I am now being told that the doctors I have do not ‘deal’ with shoulder pain and only leg pain. I think I am being gaslighted..not to mention addicted to percocets.
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