One of the worst Doctors I've seen and I'm old. He more than likely is only capable of simple fractures and only wants to deal with simple cases, he's didn't seem capable of indepth or complicated analysis.
I was referred to him from a UW Orthopedic doctor who had seen boney edemas in my MRI's and who provided me Dr. Cannon's name. I waited many weeks to get the appointment with Dr. Cannon. When setting the appointment with him I communicated with his nurse assistant to ensure prior to my visit Dr. Cannon had the scans showing the boney edemas and the scan of my history pathology showing I had mestatic breast cancer in the past. She confirmed the scans had been received prior to the visit. I set the appointment because I have severe bone pain in several locations.
On the visit, Dr. Cannon walks into the exam room and asked me what the problem was. I explained to him my history of mestatic breast cancer and a double mestectomy and thyroid cancer to start, he wasn't really interested. I asked if he had read my reports or looked at my scans, he said no they weren't available to him. I expressed his nurse had confirmed my records were in their system, his response was they weren't. I told him I had them with me, both paper reports and CD's, he said he didn't have a way to download the CD's and wasn't interested in the reports. And asked me what I expected him to do.
I told him I had several locations of severe bone pain and that boney edema's were showing on my scans. I explained that initially there was one, then more, and now I was having bone pain in my chest bones. He asked what I expected him to do about it and I told him I would like him to biopsy the boney edema in my tibia as it was the one at the time which makes it hard for me to walk. He told me that it woud be considered malpractice for him to biopsy a boney edema. Again I asked for him to look at my scans. He told me I needed to see a general practitioner and there good ones out there who can look general body pains. I told him if I have bone cancer I was going to be very unhappy about his decision to not review my records and that I had been referred to him specifically because he was a oncology orthopedic surgeon. He asked if I was threatening him, I said no, but I would be very mad of his level of care. He stated he didn't know I had been referred but then he tells me (without any review of my records) that it sounds like fibromyalgia to me. I walked out of the exam room with disgust.
After the visit, I read his chart notes on my medical record which indicated he and I discussed my muscle pain, he made no mention in the notes that the fact of my visit was bone pain from boney edema's and my request for biopsy to confirm my breast cancer hadn't spread to my bones. It was very disappointing about his level of concern or level of care, I had spent 2 months to see him and then several hours back and forth from my island to Seattle and back just to be rudely treated and disregarded. read more
