Dr. Keith Ablow, was my doctor beginning in July of 2016 - April 2017 after I was in a car…read moreaccident. Dr. Ablow was aware that I had a traumatic brain injury and depression, His course of action to treat my traumatic brain injury and depression was ketamine, ketamine spray, a cocktail of medications which were contraindicated for TBI, expensive stays at his airbnb, which he calls a retreat, " psychotherapy" and when it was an inconvenience to him, he would illegally hospitalize me under Mass state section 12 law. During this time as his patient, he showed me his personal gun and where he would keep it during the day unsecured, he would make inappropriate comments, tell me about his personal problems, such as having his personal psychiatrist show up at his home with a " chocolate mushroom ". He told me about his daughter texting him from college a picture of her flask with their last name carved in it. Part of my $550.00 an hour sessions were about Dr. Ablow telling me that his mother had borderline personality disorder and when he went to dinner with his father, he would say that he allowed him to be alive. This is only a small piece of what my therapy was like.
At no time did Dr. Ablow ever refer me to other medical professionals like vestibular therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, neuropsychologist for care of my TBI. Instead, in January of 2017 he had a friend of his who owns a 3D MRI Imaging company, do a follow up MRI, which revealed a clotted brain bleed. After getting those results in February of 2017, he raised all my medications, which were contraindicated for TBI and wrote this note, which was very revealing to a arbitration judge for the insurance company involved in my accident. Unfortunately, I am unable to copy and paste the letter at this time, but will post an updated review with the letter. The letter indicates that he is aware that I had TBI, he sent me for imaging of the brain and he recommends his airbnb, " retreat, psychotherapy and ketamine as treatment of the TBI.
I now know that the course of treatment was more for a financial gain than to help me, because learning more about TBI and how to treat it after getting off his cocktail of medications and away from what I feel was septic treatment, the proper treatment would have been to see a neurologist, go for concussion care and neurological testing, none of which he ever recommended.
Dr. Ablow was often late, on his phone when we were in sessions texting with other people. He told me about other patients. When I received my medical records from Dr. Ablow, other patients records were contained within the medical record. Dr. Ablow knew my husband and I could not afford to see him, but he was so convincing with his sales pitch, that my husband paid his astronomical fees, which he at one point, tried to get from our insurance company through the letter to the judge via us. My husband paid an estimated $80,000.00 and more.
The end result, Keith Ablow, MD did not treat my traumatic brain injury, what he did was make my recovery for the brain injury much longer, and milk my husband for every penny he could, until he couldn't get anymore. When that happened, he abruptly stopped my therapy, no discharge plan, I had no follow up doctor to go to, with all the cocktail of medications, which he was prescribing at higher than normal doses. For example, Lorazepam 1mg twice a day and Klonipin 2mg 3x a day. So he stopped all treatment, two weeks prior to my wedding day.
In July of 2017 I went to Dr. Navvaro his partner at Sea Coast Medical for ketamine treatment. Dr. Ablow had my treatment abruptly stopped once again. He had his secretary call my husband and tell him that I could not finish my course of treatment there.
There is much more to my experience with Keith Ablow, MD, but I will leave it at that for now. Based on my experience I would not recommend him.
