Horrible bedside manner
I was referred to him; as I was diagnosed at a young age with schuerrmans and as the years have passed the chronic pain has increased. I was unsure of what the exact cause of the pain was, but with my prior diagnosis my PCP believed I needed a specialist to help me.
Just one appointment with dr Buxton left me in tears he belittled me and compared the X-rays of my spine to his previous patient. A little girl with a spine 3 times as curved as mine (hippa??) but also extremely discouraging as one size does not fit all.
I never got a diagnosis, I never got a follow up, I quite frankly didn't received care at all. You know what I did get... a very large bill for his "services". One I will refuse to pay him.
I stopped receiving care, I stopped looking. I felt hopeless. He was one of my last hopes and one of the very first things he said to me was "why are you even here. You should have seen sports medicine if you don't even know what's going on" ... but that's why I was there.
He let down a patient that day, and did not uphold his oath to "do no harm" because that day he left me with a large amount of physical, mental, and financial harm.
Here I am nearly 4 years later, and I actually stepped into a career where I work alongside a plethora of well respectable surgeons who have made up for the horrible impression he left me with.
And Guess who has a diagnosis (caught by my orthopedic surgeon)
EHLERS DANLOS- hypermobility; a connective tissue disorder...
One in which a neuro/spine surgeon shouldn't think he BENEATH him to diagnose.
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