Worst doctor I've ever had the displeasure of seeing. Rude, completely out of touch with reality, accusatory.

Im writing this years after my experience with the amazing Dr. Ferrante. I was newly sober, in incredible pain from neuropathic issues and he gave me a chance. That chance changed my life. This is nearly 20 years later and I'm a thriving person, healthy person. Still in pain management care elsewhere in California, I would never have been accepted anywhere if this doctor didn't see my willingness to do whatever he said. I needed real help. I thank God every day for Dr. Ferrante and wish I was still in his care. read more

Frank, Francis or whatever you want to call him he's real cool with me. So much so I'm going in today for spacers between my disc's. I started out with him about 10 yrs ago. We've been through the shots and medication stuff. His assistant is really cool, oriental girl, very pretty too, had MRI's and we've gotten to this point. Totally trust Dr F. If this doesn't work it can be removed, as this is minimal invasive surgery. All these reviews about him being pompous, arrogant, egotistical, condescending, never with me! We have long conversations about my pain, possible solutions, how jumping out of airplanes in the early part of my life may be the root cause and such. Every visit, physical and video were pleasant, he questioned and listened to me, never bum rushed me. As far as I'm concerned his doctor to patient manor is one of the best I've ever had! A damn sight better than those at the VA. Dr FERRANTE, Dr Maidan, Dr Tabibiazar, Dr Maria's, and Dr Sam Jackson, all UCLA physicians have taken great care and looked out for me. Can't thank them enough. Keep up the good work guy's and Dr F I'll see you in a few hours for those spacers buddy! read more

Now in my tenth year with dear Dr. Ferrante, my experience with him seems to get better and better. He treats me with enthusiasm every time, while scrupulously scouring past records with his residents for past "clues" to improve my current and future health. UCLA is a teaching hospital, and helping residents learn the complex field of chronic pain while treating patients with first class care is Dr. Ferrante's mission in life. He really helps them help me and I don't mind at all that his healing methods involve a team. But make no mistake, he runs the show. Never have I had a single billing problem. Not once in almost ten years. Mystified that others have... His office staff is competent and kind. I ran into one of his schedulers, Toni, on the Promenade. She remembered my name and introduced me to her friend! Pain psychologist Julia Wu counsels and recommends new modalities during the grim times of inevitable flareups. And the Surgery Clinic up the street has great nurses and assistants. Dr. Ferrante is brilliant and kind. He treats me like his only patient, his favorite patient. Negative reviews are mystery. All I can say is "WTF?" read more

Dr Ferrante may be well liked by the medical community but he's a total jerk in the patient rooms. He has no regard for what you have to say. Dr Ferrante is arrogant and has no idea how to talk to a patient let alone listen. I was crying because his fellow/intern was suggesting epidurals in my back, which I have tried and they didn't work, and I started crying because when I had them before I was scared I would be paralyzed. So Dr Ferrante In all his wisdom asked me if I was depressed. I said depressed? Why would you think that? He said because you are crying. I told him that wasn't a cool assumption as I can cry when I'm happy too. So that was it. He didn't like that response and wanted me to get therapy. I asked if it was covered by my insurance and he said he didn't know. These pain doctors are all egotistical jerks. I've been in pain since my worst horse fall where I broke 6 bones in 1991. He has no idea and really could care less about his "patients". read more

Dr. Ferrante is my hero! I have been going to Dr. Ferrante for almost 10 years now. He has seen me some dark times, through 4 complex back surgeries and numerous outpatient surgeries as well. Even with the complex & chronic nature of my back pain, Dr. Ferrante has always been thoughtful & presented different options to help alleviate my debilitating pain. He utilizes old tried & true therapies as well has the latest therapies available to help make life more liveable. Dr. Ferrante & his amazing team of Lily Nguyen, P.A. & Valencia are always in top of things, efficient, professional, caring & compassionate and greet you with a smile & optimism. Dr. Ferrante only works with the best so always rest assured you are in great hands when you are one of his patients. I don't know where or how I would be without all of them. This is my humble attempt to thank Dr. Ferrante, Sharon Sikand, Lily Nguyen , Valencia & office manager Rosalind for always being there for their patients! read more

Wait time is usually about 45 minutes to see a nurse and go to a room and , then you get to see the students/residents and wait another 1.30-2 hours to see the doctor. He spends maybe 10 minutes, 15 if you are lucky talking to you. read more

Read the bad reviews. He may have the credentials and referrals from the medical community, but when it comes to patient care, he is severely lacking. I agree with the pompous comments, and he left me waiting for almost TWO hours in the exam room. I even heard him call his staff to his office for a quick meeting while I was two rooms away and had already been waiting 1.5 hours. Not even sorry for being 2 hours late, and I am a brand new patient. He was arrogant and showed no compassion...not worth the drive or wait, in my opinion. read more

From the moment dr Ferrante walked in the room and shook my hand I knew I was in good hands..... i have what would be called a complicated autoimmune history, He made me feel heard. He is kind and empathetic we worked on a solution together and I left feeling better already read more

Patient BEWARE. This man is burned out and should have his license revoked. All of the stories posted are kind compared to my experience. It is too long for me to write because i have a spinal cord injury and a limp arm. He had me in tears. I see Dr Katrina Vlachos now who is caring and compassinate unlike this monster... read more

My husband has been having severe back pain. We were referred to Dr Ferrante by our Neurosurgeon. I always do my own bit of research which made me want to write my own review of our experience. Dr Ferrante couldn't have been more caring and thorough with his examination. He took the time to look at two prior MRI's and you could tell he has a brilliant mind. When in his office you felt like... this guy is going to be the one to figure things out and help us. He could tell we were frightened and really made us feel better. He even patted my husbands hand and called him buddy. It was very sweet. Dr Samantha Wong was also wonderful. She came in first and gathered a lot of pertinent information. It's only been a couple days but the pain has lessened. I highly recommend Drs Ferrante and Wong and the UCLA Pain management Center. read more

For years I lived with uncontrolled pain from a hip, knee and nerve injury. I also have an extremely rare potentially fatal disorder called Hereditary Angioedema (HAE for short). HAE manifest in uncontrollable swelling in my face, lips, tongue and airway. I've endure lengthy stays in the ICU, where I required medical interventions like several intubations, and a couple tracheotomies to protect my airway. Living with HAE and also having many allergies to medications creates many complexities to providing me with proper medical care. One of many triggers for my HAE swells is pain. For years we could never find a doctor willing to become my treating physician, and work to create a treatment plan. A year ago I had a surgery, and as expected I had an aggressive airway swell, and I was sent to ICU. The pain from the surgical procedure triggered numerous swells, and the ICU physician suggested to get a pain doctor involved in creating me a plan of treatment. Dr. Ferrante was called in for a pain consultation, and that began my journey to proper pain management. Dr. Ferrante was so compassionate, patient, and diagnosis me with Bradykinin mediated pain. He explained how I was stuck in a vicious cycle of HAE swells and pain. My husband and I began crying, because for the 1st time in years a doctor cared, understood, and offered me hope. Not only that Dr. Ferrante has been an amazing advocate, dealing with insurance companies, over zealous doctors, and anything else that stood in the way of me getting the proper care. With Dr. Ferrante and my HAE Specialist working together, they devised my treatment plan I just celebrated one year of no ICU hospitalizations. This is the longest I've ever gone w/o needing hospitalization for HAE facial, tongue and airway swelling in my life. This doesn't mean I don't have HAE swells, and there are moments of breakthrough pain however, I have option I never thought would be available to me. I cannot find words to express how grateful I'm for Dr. Ferrante, he changed my life for the better. It is so uplifting and heart warming to see how genuinely happy he and his office staff are for my improved quality of life. read more

I have arthritis and chronic issues with my back, knees and hips and Dr. Ferrante has, helped me so many times. He runs a very tight operation, with friendly helpful staff with a surgical center next door. His demeanor is friendly, empathic and he is a good listener. He has accommodated me at the last minute many times. He is also a terrific diagnostician. I would highly recommend Dr. Ferrante! read more

I have never been so completely insulted by a doctor. His manner is pompous, offensive and overbearing, to say the least. Never mind the 90 minute wait, or whether he is actually a good doctor or not, or if he can help people with pain. This man is offensive. He said I should FIND RELIGION! How about keeping to medicine and not trying to tell me my pain will get better if I pray, or find God, or how to live my life. Shoving religion down a patient's throat is inappropriate, to say the least. He said, at least 3 times during the appointment, "Welcome to the rest of us" which sounds like I am being a big crybaby who should stop complaining. As if I acted like am the only one dealing with chronic pain. I go through life pretending I am not in pain, but I was at the doctor's office! Should I not complain there? At the PAIN DOCTOR. I mean, it is dumbfounding that he said this to me. Then he said I seemed angry. Let me tell you, I WAS angry! The poor intern, the look on her face... I should mention I had a lovely interaction with the intern (Dr. Lee) who did a great job. But this review isn't about her, is it? But wait, there's more. He said my 'sense of entitlement' is my problem. WAIT, what?! Those words are stupefying, and outrageous to say to a patient. A sense of entitlement from a man who knows me for 8 minutes? Really?That is NOT OK to say to a patient you know nothing about. Just for the record, I have supported myself since I was a teenager and have held a job for over 30 years. I am fostering a child whose mother (who was my neighbor) passed away, and promised I wouldn't let her child go in to foster care. I volunteer at the rescue shelter on my day off and take my 90 year old neighbor to the doctor and to the market. Does this sound like a person who feels like they have a sense of entitlement? Then, he actually physically intimidated me. He stood with ONE INCH between our faces and continued insulting me. I was already standing at that point, ready to walk out. He excused the intern before 'getting in my face" which I feel was a tactic to literally and physically intimidate me. Disgusting. He is a vile, rude, ignorant man. Was I a perfect angel? NOPE. I was not. I yelled at him, I did. But this pig crossed the line with me, and I lost it. The office manager had to come and calm me down. Honestly, I felt like that wasn't the first time she had to do that to a disgruntled patient, but that is just a hunch. She seemed, to me, to be hiding her disgust with him but acted very professionally in regards to the situation. Welcome to my first-ever yelp review of a doctor! I will be filing an official complaint. read more

Wow. I can't believe Dr. Ferrante hasn't had a review yet. I think this doctor and the practice are really exceptional. I have known them for over 10 years starting with when my husband herniated some disks in his back and have worked with him on my own back issues and a some painful symptoms left over from a past endocrine disorder. Dr. Ferrante is really an exceptional physician and so intelligent and creative in his assessment and treatment. I have really found him and his colleagues and staff to be excellent in pain treatment and pain management. He also recommended me to an excellent acupuncturist (Lotus east west medicine in SM) who has been fantastic for me. So I appreciate him thinking out of the box. The front desk and side desk staff are really nice and genuinely try to make your life easier. Yes you will have to wait in the waiting room. Bring a book. Yes you will likely wait in the exam room. Borrow a magazine. Just go and get yourself feeling better read more

Find someone else. I went in for a single consultation with Dr. Ferrante (yes, mostly with one of his intake people and then for a brief moment before being told to get an MRI). I don't think that's malpractice even though MRI's are not cheap. Dr. Ferrante's overall treatment and consultation was extremely brief - my impression was he'd prefer to look at your MRI first before assessing your case. It would have saved all of us time if he had done a brief phone consultation and advised I get an MRI before coming in. But even worse - this office has deceptive billing practices. What they don't disclose is that they will bill you as a hospital patient. Once you enter this office and sign your forms, you're a hospital patient receiving inpatient care. This bills at an extremely high rate. You'll be charged several additional fees, none of which your insurance will cover (or at least mine never did). Disputing these fees will take so much of your time, you'll want to give up and just pay the ransom. If you're stubborn like me, you'll fight back. If you're busy, can't refile disputes, etc, you'll end up paying through the nose for the most expensive 15 minutes of your life. I think it's incumbent on Dr. Ferrante to instruct his staff to be upfront with patients that seeing him in his office will actually be billed as hospital treatment. I don't blame one doctor for entire medical industry's financial shenanigans, but his 1-star reviews show that this doctor does not put much thought or care into treating his patients. There are other pain specialists out there - try one of them instead. read more

I am a life long chronic pain survivor. My situation requires that I have rather accomplished pain clinic to handle my needs to maintain an active lifestyle with significant pain issues that follow me every minute every day. Unfortunately, I have had to change pain clinics maybe six times over the past 20 years and only two doctors and clinics have really stood out. Both are well-known doctors in their fields and and they both teach resident doctors and lecture on a global scale. One of those doctors is Michael Ferrante at UCLA pain clinic. I completely understand how other people have reviewed Dr. Ferrante's disposition as being a little aloof. He made appear that way but he is a very brilliant doctor with a long track record of not making mistakes. Pain doctors cannot afford to make mistakes. Imagine if you had to see 50 people with severe pain issues in one of the largest cities in America. That does not sound like fun to me. Because of that, I tend to give pain clinic doctors as well as anesthesiologists that have tended to me during my 27 hospital procedures hey pass on their personalities. With that said, it did take me a few months to get to know Dr. Ferrante. Now that I understand him better, and he understands me better, he is a very nice guy underneath that shell of being one of the absolute best pain management doctors in the world. I hope you believe me when you read this, I have had some awful being Dr. experiences and it's so comforting to know that Dr. Ferrante is there to help me. I feel fortunate that I can get to see him once per month and have him take care of my pain pit stops. It is my opinion that Dr. Ferrante and his team are worth any sort of frustrations you may have regarding his personality. If you are a chronic pain person and you would benefit from chatting with a veteran of living with some heavy duty pain as well as navigating the confusing waters of pain management doctors, please google me and connect? Just do a Google search for Will Crockett hybrid photography, you can find me. read more

It is unbelievable that these people have seen the same doctor as I have. Simply amazing. The Dr. F. Michael Ferrante I know is so wildly different from the doctor these negative reviews portray that I MUST stand up for this amazing, warm man that I have experienced. I first met Dr. Ferrante in 2014. I asked for pain management, as the doctors at the clinic I went to had a difficult time believing that I was in as much pain as I professed to be. They were convinced that I was a drug seeker - that is a person who goes from doctor to doctor, getting prescriptions from them to feed a rampant addiction. I KNEW this was what they thought, as I had been treated like this for most of my life. I decided to get myself to pain management, to prove, once-and-for-all, that they were wrong! I sat in the room, expecting to be treated with indifference and a lack of understanding. Imagine my very tearful relief to meet a doctor who had compassion - a doctor who promised to get to the bottom of the problem, and who not only believed me, but got me on meds right away to cut the pain until he could figure out what the trouble was. He ordered a CT scan of my lower back straight away. The scan showed that my lumbar spine had severe degeneration. The pain going down my legs and around my lower back was very real. He got me on a long-acting medication that immediately made me feel much better, and other meds for times when the pain would break through. Yes, I was still in some pain, but the fact that this man knew I was not a drug-seeker meant the world to me. Time went on, and I was still having trouble with my right arm and hand - I had burning, searing pain going from the base of my neck and down through the middle fingers on my right hand. It was interfering with my ability to play the guitar, so I finally said something to Dr. Ferrante. He then ordered another CT scan, this time of the cervical spine area, with instructions to meet with him afterwards. At that appointment, he went out to check the scans, then came back in and asked me how I could be so pleasant when I am in such bad shape, giving me a hug. He then told me that he can try something that might help, a procedure called an epidural. He scheduled me for the same week to get it done. Yes, it was a painful procedure, but after about two days, WOW! I have been in intractable pain since the accident happened when I was 8 years old. Finally, at the age of 62, I could stand! I could walk! I could move without excruciating pain! It was like finding religion. I had not, since the age of eight, been able to move freely, and now I could do it! My husband and I had been homeless for awhile, and the Nurse-Practitioner, Sharon, was really generous, giving my husband a coat, and us blankets and a comforter to keep us warm at night. The staff is just as wonderful as the doctor, and they helped us get through that very difficult time. Dr. Ferrante told me that I will need back surgery, but the County Hospitals will not do it. Luckily I am only a few months away from having Medicare - allowing me to see the best doctors, and the ones who WILL do what is necessary to effect a permanent solution to my troubles with my back. Until then, Dr. Ferrante is doing what is necessary to keep me functioning until I can finally get the surgery I need. These Epidurals have given me my life back; the medication regimen that he has me on keeps me being able to walk, being able to perform, being able to do the things that had been impossible before meeting Dr. Ferrante. He is a warm, funny, caring man - nothing like the complainers say. Thank You, Dr. Ferrante, for renewing my faith in the medical profession, and for being the wonderful, warm person that you are. I will be forever grateful for what you have done to make my life livable. This is a great doctor, a wonderful man, and his Nurse-Practitioners, both Lily and especially Sharon, are great folks too. Try him! read more

I called this office today to try to see someone as soon as possible, for a chronic neck issue. I'm desperate for excruciating pain relief. The only thing that has helped me in the 6 years since being rear ended and suffering a double whiplash has been botox injections in my neck. Even though I have medical records on file with UCLA they would not even discuss an appt without being "referred". I have to fly back east this weekend to put my father into hospice care and was hoping I could get some help before leaving. Not possible here. read more

There is a reason this Dr. only ha 2 1/2 stars at the time of this posting. I'm actually surprised its not less. I switched my insurance to UCLA in hopes of finally finding some relief from my musculo-skeletal condition. Oh, he will promise you the world, say he has a plan and that you will get relief from it. But NEVER think you know about your own body or pain more than he does. Never presume to know what works and doesn't work for your pain. After several failed injections and procedures. Increasing in costs, he schedules me to get in office injections into my IT band completely ignoring the other areas the failed procedures and injections were in, the areas the pain originates from. I was willing, because let's face it, when your in do much pain as to see a PM specialist, you'll try anything, and reducing the tightness and pain down my leg would be amazing. I sit in the office once again waiting for over 20 minutes to even see a fellow. He seems promising. I give him my update. I tell him I'm no longer on Cymbalta because it didn't work well enough to quell the fibromyagila pain to cost me $50/mo when my insurance copay changed. We discussed other options. We discuss why I'm there which has nothing to do with my FM. 15 minutes after the fellow leaves, Ferrante comes in and proceeds to ask me questions about going off of cymbalta. I explain to him I've already discussed this with my rheumatologist who prescribed it and she is fine with it. He begins to be condescending and tells me "Well there's nothing more I can do for you if you don't want to be on it. So good luck" I tell him I was no longer on it last office visit and advised them off this then, when they scheduled this appt for the injections." He, of course, completely ignores this and tells me he's not doing them and won't help me anymore until I am stabilized on this medicine that costs too much and doesn't work. I tell him I had flare ups on it. I don't understand what the difference and I'm not seeing him for fm, I'm seeing him for . He tries to tell me I'm only in pain because of my FM. He won't listen that the pain I'm in is from constant muscle strain from me training my body to be in a certain posture which is why I'm there and actually tells me, "well since your rheumatologist knows so much more about fibromyagila, go have him take care of you." He tells me we aren't doing anything today and not to come back unless I'm on it again and walks out. That's the gist of it. I was so upset I was in tears. I forced myself to drive there for nothing. Q Does he own stock in Cymbalta?! How did he become the medical director of pain management at ucla? It's almost like he knows he's not doing anything to help you and he's hiding behind what little relief you may get from the medications you're desperate to get off of. Every procedures was in a different location. If something different work he would just move on to another procedure at a different section of my spine and never look back to the culprit shown from xrays and mris. He is an awful doctor with no compassion and horrible bedside manners. I truly believe what everyone else said. This man is only in it for the money. Even his fellow looked completely in shock of the way he treated me and stayed behind to try to help. Do not go to Dr Ferrante if you actually want a doctor that will listen and try to understand your pain. Don't go to him if you want a doctor that will work with you and your other doctors to manage your pain. I'll be filing a complaint with UCLA and may even take it a step further. Beware! read more

My experience with Dr. Ferantte was the least helpful and most harmful I have ever experienced. My doctor asked me to see him about the possibility of implanting a medical device that would help with some severe Cluster Headaches that I have been treated for for over 16 years. I knew that the procedure was new but he assured me that he had done "hundreds" of the procedures and they were no problem. By the end of our interview i was astonished to find that the doctor told me that i was not suffering from Cluster Headaches but MS and had been misdiagnosed all these years. I was so excited to tell my neurologist that I sent her an E-mail as soon as I got home. She told me that the doctor was mistaken and that he would schedule me for a procedure very soon. That should have been my first red flag. It took one hour for him to change his diagnosis. I was scheduled to have a ten day trial where some wires would be placed under my skin at the back of my head touching my Occipital Nerve and that a belt with an electronic stimulator would replace the pain I normally felt when I had an attack. Well the day of the procedure again there was warning signs when the doctor and the Reps from the device came to my bed before surgery and talked about how I would use the devise. Turn it on constantly or turn it on when I got an attack? They didn't know! I don't care what sort of a....It's different for everybody; they didn't know! After the surgery I expected to see Dr. Ferantte but he never came so I talked to the reps. and I was on my own. Now the back half of my head was shave and covered with bandages and wires rand down my side to my hip to that device. I'm still having head aches and when I'm not is it the device or am i just not having headaches? Three days after the procedure the entire bandage started to pull away and i could feel the wires pulling out so I presented myself at the Doctors office with the open wounds and asked what i should do. after calling the doctor who was across the street at the hospital I was asked what % of success was I having with the device? Now it had been three days and I wasn't sure if I'd had any success but a number came out of my head to please the nurse who seemed to be under some pressure to deliver a % back to Dr. Ferantte. The nurse came back after talking with Dr. Ferantte by phone and said the wires could come out and that the trial had been a success. Three days is all it had been in! Another red flag. I told the nurse that three days was not enough time for me to evaluate something that was going to be in my body for the rest of my life and she basically left me there with the dressings hang from my head. I was under what I felt was allot of pressure from my neurologist to try this procedure because I was not having any luck with medications and when I talked to my primary doctor he agreed that the test was OK and i should go on with the procedure. So against my better judgment I called Dr.Ferantte's staff at the end of ten days and said I'd go on with the procedure. When I called in to the doctor's assistant to set a date for surgery she told me that they had just had a cancellation for that Monday but that we probably couldn't have it because the insurance companies usually requires a psych. evaluation before they would give their approval for the surgery. I was surprised when she called me back about an hour later and said that we were on for Monday and when I asked how she got such a fast approval she said "I'm goooooood". I'm going to spare you all the details of the procedure and the pain of the incisions all over my body that the doctor didn't even pres crib a pain medication for. I'm not going to bore you with the next 6 months of headaches and trial and error at setting the device and the doctor having no clue as to how to set the device or how my appointments were now with the medical device rep and not Dr. Ferantte because all he knows is how to sell you on the damned thing and not work it. After reading more and more negative reports about Occipital Nerve Stimulator's and hearing how fast the doctor suggested he take it out I became suspicious about the whole ordeal. One day i received a letter from Anthem Blue Cross asking me to tell them If my Injury was due to an on the job accident. That didn't make sense that an operation for migraines might be related for an on the job accident but then I remembered what the assistant said. I had just read an article about how the device that was in my body was originally intended for spinal implant for people who suffered from back and knee pain and had great success. Easy approval from the insurance company. Anthem Blue Cross will NOT approve Occipital Nerve Stimulator's. UCLA PAIN MANAGEMENT CLlNIC, to fill their dance card for that Monday cancellation had requested approval for and received authorization to preform a "IMPLANTATION OF A SPINAL CORD STIMULATOR" on me NOT an Occipital Nerve Stimulator read more

I took part in the botox for migraine trial Dr. Ferrante conducted several years ago. I saw him between 6-8 times and each time he was friendly, caring and engaging. I read all of the negative reviews here and cannot believe we are talking about the same doctor. I had a very good result from the botox injections. I was migraine and neck pain free for 2 years after taking part in the trial. I will say he always seemed busy because of a full waiting room, but you wouldn't know it by the way he treated me. read more

This doctor is great. Okay, you may have to wait a bit, but he is an amazing doctor. He and his fellow looked at my MRI of my back and within seconds he knew which pain medication I needed and how much and what treatment would help me. Then in a few weeks I had the Back Radio procedure and it made me feel like a 16 year old again - before the procedure I felt like I was 116 - I am 57. He also understands how long it takes a person to get off of the pain medication that was helping you with your back pain. Bravo to Dr. Ferrante and his staff. Very attractive staff, I must say. Thank you, Thank you. Doug M. read more

Let me start by stating that until today I have never wrote one Yelp Review. A few months ago my Neurologist Dr Doran suggested that I see Dr Ferrante since I was not getting any relief from my original Pain Mgt Doctor. I googled him to look for his number and YELP came up with his phone number. I clicked on YELP and was horrified after I read most of the the negative reviews Dr Ferrante received.. However, I read Heelah's review where she said "are we talking about the same person?" I showed this to my Neurologist and she replied "look at he type of patients he gets, people with chronic pain that most Doctors were not able to help". When Dr. Ferrante walked into my examining room he smiled and outstretched his arm and said "Hi, I'm Mike". And from there I have seen the Doctor about 8 times and have always walked away knowing I might not find a cure YET to my sever Sciatica / Piriformis pain but I am definitely with the right Doctor. He has explained EVERY question I have had with layman terms and analogizes, he has reevaluated his diagnosis several times based on further tests and has not been rigid in his diagnosis. He even went so far as to request an 'out of network" referral (out of his UCLA network) to a Back Surgery Clinic that my long time Ski Buddy / Knee Surgeon works at. My first pain Management Doctor gave up and said he could not do anything more for me but to try an "spinal Cord Stimulation". Both Dr Ferrante and myself deduced that being an active person and hopefully getting cack to skiing, I have complete faith that Dr Ferrante will either cure me or help me to alleviate my constant daily pain. Furthermore, his staff has gotten me appointment and aninsurance referral for an emergency Botox shot in my Buttocks, a treatment that traditionaly takes 5 - 7 business days to get approved, they got approved in 2 days. read more

All the complaints in the other reviews match my experience exactly. If you visit Dr. Ferrante, be prepared to sit in a room for half an hour, then talk to a "fellow" who will listen to everything you say but not actually report any of the information to Dr. Ferrante. Dr. Ferrante himself will eventually come in, talk to you for 30 seconds, then send you off to get an X-Ray or an MRI or some other expensive test you probably don't need without actually treating your pain, thoroughly examining you, or giving you any information. He'll tell you to come back in two weeks to do the same routine all over again, then he'll run out of the room to scam the next patient. You will leave feeling like "What did I just pay for?" Maybe he just takes too many patients to give each one proper care, but whatever the reason, you can do much better than Dr. Ferrante! read more

I saw Dr. Ferrante today for lower back pain. My appointment was at 8am and I got there at 8:10. After filling out paperwork and waiting, was called in around 8:45am. The P.A. who did my initial exam and evaluation was very friendly and knowledgeable. After she did her initial evaluation, Dr. Ferrante walked in with her. He was very friendly and attentive, patiently answered all of my questions, and suggested a procedure that will help relieve my pain. So aside from the waiting room delay, my visit to Dr. Ferrante was a very pleasant one. read more