I had a bizarre and disturbing encounter with Dr. Douglas Hemler of Star Spine and Sport in…read more2010-2011, and I certainly don't recommend him or his office.
I'd seen him several years prior, when I was on active duty and he was a military doctor, and I brought the report of a test he'd run on me to my first appt. with him. That appointment was pleasant, and I thought his P.A., Kirk Prochnio, and I were supposedly working out a treatment plan.
When I went back to their office one day however, I was sitting in the waiting room, when Hemler came out and with his arms raised to the ceiling, yelled at me that he remembered me from Walter Reed (?!).
The eyes of everyone in the office grew wide--we were all in shock. Needless to say, I got out of there as fast as I could, thoroughly puzzled and disturbed by his odd and inappropriate behavior.
Little did I know then that Hemler is on staff with Exempla (or SCL), as is ortho surgeon Curtis Leonard, who split a bribe in 2006 with my former PCP Peter Holt, to put in an already recalled metal hip in me in 2006 (in 2011 Wright Medical paid $7.9 million in fines for bribing doctors to use their recalled metal hips); and both Holt--who is on staff with Centura--and Leonard--have my record red-flagged (Peter Holt was technically the "distributor" of my metal hip, while Leonard was the surgeon).
You can read these men's crimes against me in my yelp.com reviews of Curtis Leonard, Longmont United Hospital, Avista Adventist, Centura Health, and also Peter Holt (all "near" Longmont CO).
NOW I understand that Hemler saw the red flag and contacted Curtis Leonard, and they concocted a scheme to harm me. And sadly, Hemler, his P.A., Kirk Prochnio, and Paul Battle, a P.A. in another pain management office I'd gone to, were only too happy to comply.
I had just been diagnosed with b-cell follicular non-hodgkin's lymphoma, so I was seeing different physicians in 2011, but THEN I began to get insurance EOB's (Explanations of Benefits) from different area pharmacies for multiple narcotics, as well as Certified letters of rejection from many physicians, including the one who had diagnosed me with lymphoma, which COULD have had serious and deadly consequences; however (and perhaps fortunately), my type of lymphoma isn't curable.
At that time, though, I was horrified, and took this information to Longmont Police, and told them someone else was getting drugs in my name. But thanks to the harm done to my reputation by Peter Holt and Curtis Leonard, the cops said I was "delusional."
Holt is now retired, but he's spread MANY false, wicked rumors around concerning me, such as, when I had critically low potassium and phosphorous, that I was "psychotic" (these conditions are called hypokalemia and hypophosphatemia); that I was supposedly court-martialed out of the military when the fact is, I'm a 100 percent service-connected disabled veteran who served 9 years, with three letters of appreciation and two Good Conduct medals; while Curtis also invented a record at Good Samaritan that I supposedly went there for an STD check!
So I then actually went to the pharmacies and obtained the SIGNATURES of WHO picked up the prescriptions (when you pick up a narcotic medication, you have to sign for it).
Are you ready for this? It was Kirk Prochnio (Hemler's P.A.), and Paul Battle (another pain clinic P.A.), who were actually going around getting drugs in MY NAME!
In one of the pharmacies, Prochnio had filled large amounts of both Percocet AND Oxycontin in ONE DAY at the SAME PHARMACY.
You can't DO THAT, there isn't a pharmacy in the world that will do that, so the pharmacists had to be in on it too!
I recently went to one of the doctors from whom I'd received a Certified letter of rejection and asked why he did that, and he confirmed that he'd received a letter that I was going around getting drugs from different doctors.
Peter Holt and Curtis Leonard are absolute psychopaths, devoid of conscience, and it never fails to AMAZE me the ACCOMPLICES they manage to find, such as Douglas Hemler, Kirk Prochnio, and Paul Battle (and the pharmacists involved as well).
And it's inexcusable that the Longmont Police didn't take me seriously, and investigate it themselves. The moral of the story however is, if you value your life, I recommend becoming homeopathic, as I am now.
The medical profession HAS no integrity, and these guys should be in jail (however, as I said in my review of Dr. Curtis Leonard, wrap a stethoscope around your neck and you can get away with ANYTHING, including murder!).
I actually wrote 2 reviews of Curtis Leonard "near" Longmont Co, if you care to look them up (who threatened me with "legal ramifications for exaggeration and embellishment after my FIRST review of him, so I yelped him AGAIN!).
I'm thankful to yelp.com, for its integrity. Doctors can't "buy off" this website, and my thanks again to yelp staff, that SOMEONE in this evil world has integrity.
