STAY AWAY. The NeuroSpine Institute & the Pacific Sports and Spine, are the least caring and most inefficient medical facilities that I have experienced in my 70 years.
I fear that they run some sort of "mill" operation that wants to get you in, perform as many procedures as your insurance allows, then leave you hanging. They have plenty of staff, but they are arrogantly aloof, indifferent to the patient and have given me the distinct impression that the patient is at best to be tolerated.
In the past year, I've never felt welcome. In fact I leave feeling that my visit caused them extra work - which I know it didn't. They're over staffed, yet are constantly hustling to keep up.
An example: one visit, the Doctor comes in with 4 people. One with a laptop to take notes of the visit, and the other 3 were busy getting my vitals and taking things out of drawers and cupboards. The Dr. was FB telling them what he wanted, while asking me questions. He was giving verbal instructions to the keyboard operator, so I paused, figuring I'd resume answering when he finished. To my surprise he looked up and told me, "Go ahead, I'm listening."
Can a person hold two conversations at once? I know I can't and am doubtful that people can - yet the few that can, can they really fully understand both conversations? And we're talking medicine here. Where mistakes can mean paralysis or death.
They haven't returned calls and I've experienced long delays for making appointments. I've had prescriptions that have gone infilled. Never once has anyone offered an apology.
I'm sorry if I sound dramatic or as if I have an agenda. It's just that I feel abused by them and would bail out to go somewhere else but I feel that I've had to jump thru so many hoops over the past 6 months that I don't want to go to another Dr. and have to start all over again. I'm in constant pain, and medication is just a Band Aid that may just reduce the pain a bit. But I'll take it! Plus I have braces, a Tens Unit, heat packs & ice packs, and mental tricks to interfere with the pain signal.
But I turn 71 next month, and my back is
Not going to get better. After 30 years of back problems and avoiding back surgery, I find myself eager to go under the knife to solve this finally. I do not want to spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair or in bed. I want to spend my retirement as an active person. No, not football or competitive games, but walking, hiking, fishing, travel, tinkering in the garage and being involved with other people. I spend most of my days now in bed. My pain is minimal there.
My agenda if anything is to warn you, along with the many other negative reviews that I've read on Yelp. Search out a better facility that can help you. I really regret that I didn't search out reviews of the facility and the Doctors. read more