Before I get into my individual experience with Dr. Fisher, which is arguably more reprehensible than his more general practices, I want to first describe the type of practice this is, as it's a somewhat common and disingenuous chiropractic business model:
1) For the first appointment, Dr. Fisher will ask you a number of questions about your lifestyle and take an array of x-rays of your spine, having you bend your neck in certain directions and so forth. He'll tell you that he needs to interpret the x-rays that night, and have you schedule another appointment the following day. He won't adjust you or do any sort of work on you at this appointment.
2) When you come back for the follow-up appointment, this is the sales pitch. I can't stress enough how much the entire thing felt like a used car salesman pitch. Dr. Fisher will show you the x-rays he took, compare them to illustrations of a perfect spine, and tell you why yours is in shambles. He'll ask you all kinds of leading questions along the lines of "If this is what your spine looks now, what do you think it will look like down the road if you don't do anything about it?" He'll also make all sorts of condescending analogies that have nothing to do with the point he is trying to make, as if you are too stupid to understand the technical explanation, and you're supposed to just go along with it (e.g., I'm not quoting directly, but things along the lines of "What happens when you don't change the oil in your car? *makes you respond that your engine stops working like it should* "Exactly! Same with taking care of your spine").
3) At the end of the sales pitch, he'll start describing the "treatment plan" that he's personalized just for you. This will involve you coming in for treatment 3 times/week for 3 months (or more). He will explain each stage of the treatment process (which, hilariously, included a stage where he claims you will get harder erections as a result of his treatment), although none of this is provided in a written format for you to digest and mull over later. I asked if I could get any written explanation of the treatment plan he proposed, and he said, "we don't really have that, but I'll type something up and email it to you", but never did.
4) Finally, Dr. Fisher gets into the price tag. This was possibly the slimiest part of the process. He actually pushes you to PRE-PAY for your treatment plan up front. As a reminder, by this point Dr. Fisher still has not adjusted you or done any sort of treatment whatsoever. Despite that, he lays out all sorts of payment plans for you to pay for his services in advance when you haven't even been treated by him a single time. If you pay for each of the 36 treatments individually, he says, the total cost will be $4,000+. BUT, if you pay for X number of treatments in advance, the cost drops to something lower, like ~$3,500. BUT, if you pay for EVEN MORE treatments in advance, the cost drops lower. And, if you pay for all 36 treatments that day, on the spot, the price is significantly lower than the $4,000+. He is incredibly pushy, and ends with something along the lines of "so what option do you want to go with?" as if it's a foregone conclusion that you're going to hand over your credit card and let him run it for $3,000 on the spot. Not to mention, he says nothing about what happens if at the end of the 36 treatments you haven't improved as much as he told you you would. Then what? You pay him for even more treatments.
5) Having said all that, I mentioned above that my individual experience with Dr. Fisher was even worse than his general shady practices. Since this review has gotten longer than I anticipated, I'll be brief. I initially went into Dr. Fishers office because I was experiencing a tingling/sunburn-like sensation down one of my arms. I thought perhaps this was a pinched nerve, so I went to Dr. Fisher and explained the symptoms at that first appointment. Later that night, I started developing a rash on my arm that I later found out was shingles (which was confirmed by two medical doctors). The next day, when I went back to Dr. Fisher for the follow-up appointment/sales pitch, I told him about the rash, and that I had seen a doctor earlier that day who told me with near certainty that it was likely shingles, and all of my symptoms matched perfectly. Despite this, Dr. Fisher told me that he was almost positive that it was not shingles, and that instead this was a problem with my spine that I needed his treatment to fix. To repeat, Dr. Fisher actually made a medical diagnosis on me that falls outside his area of practice, which was incorrect, in order to get me to pay for his chiropractic treatment. Obviously, I never went through with having Dr. Fisher treat me, was prescribed medication for the shingles by another doctor, which took care of it without any chiropractic treatment whatsoever. Had I followed Dr. Fisher's advice, it could have gotten much worse. read more