My 91 yr old mother with multiple spinal compression fractures was referred to "Dr." Rice to see whether any surgical procedures could alleviate the excruciating pain in her back that, after 2 months, had just this week begun to dissipate enough to get her into a car and to an appointment. First his morbidly obese, picture-of-health PA enters the room and loudly and arrogantly insists that the only recourse at this point is to inject radioactive materials into my frail mother's body so they can "see" the fractures' age. Then enters young, fit Rice who proceeds to aggressively poke around my mother's fragile back asking her if this hurts and that hurts and then when she says "not really where you're pushing", he then HITS her 91 year old BROKEN back several times with force! She is shocked and too intimidated by doctors to tell him to stop and that it hurts and now she has NEW terrible pain in her back ribs!!! We are too exhausted to make a legal case of this in these last months of her life so I thought I would just warn others that these guys are dangerous and should be avoided. read more
