If I could put no stars up there I would. Dr. Healey was my grandson's doctor for six years from the day he was born. Providing a standard abdominal exam with every well child exam, he never seemed to pick up a tumor the size of an orange on his adrenal gland on top of the kidney of a very skinny boy. When his mom noted his loss of weight and pallor color and slight limp, she brought him back to the almighty Dr. Healey, pediatrician, psychiatrist, cardiologist, urologist, orthopedist-- you name it, he did it. After a months time he concluded that my grandson had juvenile arthritis because of the limp, after taking a hip x-ray showing an irregularity, no CT scan, no MRI. He then sent him to an orthopedic doctor in Syracuse who diagnosed the huge tumor on his adrenal gland as Neuroblastoma Stage IV high risk with metastasized tumors in his hip, pelvis, and lymph nodes. The metastasized tumor in his hip gsdvtitslly broken his hip! His own patient for six years and he never picked this up??? They said in Syracuse that he'd had this cancer for at least 2 1/2 years! My six year old little grandson died after suffering for 21 months. Thank you Dr. Healey. And he never called to express his sympathy to his patient's family who were all his patient's also, but no more . read more
