Dr. Robert Weber worked as an oncologist at St. Mary's hospital in San Francisco along with his brother, Dr. Peter Weber, a neurosurgeon. Dr. Robert Weber diagnosed my mother with brain cancer when she was 42 years old. He referred her to his brother for brain surgery. They both concluded that the tumors in her brain were inoperable but Dr. Peter Weber would place a shunt in her brain because that would address her symptoms. Dr. Robert Weber was cold and lacked empathy and was culturally insensitive. I was 16 at the time and I told my mom during her appointment with both of them in the room, that she should get a second opinion at a different hospital. In our culture, like many other cultures, you don't question doctors. He was very aggressive and aware of my mom's lack of confidence in speaking up, so he took advantage of her situation and told me to leave the room for the remainder of her appointment with both of them, even though my mom needed help with English and understanding medical terms such as "metastasized". They said that she had cancer that was from 9 years ago, when she had breast cancer of which she had received treatment and it had completely healed, but somehow it sat in her brain for all of those years. That didn't make sense to me. Both brothers would not let me come in with my mom for her appointments and terrorized her into chemo and radiation to the brain telling her she was "going to expire" and that she had two months to live. He Dr. Robert Weber was particularly cruel and a bully.
My mom was scared and went through an aggressive radiation treatment to her entire brain along with chemo to the brain. Dr. Peter Weber placed the shunt in her brain that caused more problems in her limb. He then had her have another surgery where an implant needed to be placed in her leg to address the complications from the shunt.
She was scared and trying to keep alive for her kids because that's what they told her she had to do. The treatment was so concerning that the hospital social worker, Fern, called my mother in to tell her that the treatment plan was wrong and she couldn't watch in good conscience what they were doing to her but Fern never said anything to the hospital. I watched the social worker cry and tell my mom she needs to leave St. Mary's. That she could have went to UCSF to have had pinpoint radiation to the lesions in her brain instead of radiating her entire brain. She was worried about the radiation and all the surgeries the brothers had my mom go through that didn't make sense including adding an implant into her leg and a shunt in her brain. She was so scared for my mom that she got my mom connected with the Make A Wish foundation to try do to something nice for her because she didn't know what else she could do to undo what Dr. Robert Weber and Dr. Peter Weber had done to her.
After the all of the aggressive radiation, chemotherapy, shunt and implant into her leg, and hearing from the social worker, and countless emergency visits to the ER and many hospital stays, my mom went to UCSF where we are told that she had never had brain cancer. When we tried to reach Dr. Robert Weber, St. Mary's hospital said that he was on vacation and they couldn't contact him. When we tried to reach Dr. Peter Weber, the hospital said that he, too, was on vacation and he could not be found. We tried to understand what was happening to my mom and they made it difficult for us and had lawyers present when we tried to speak to the hospital.
My mom's body has been breaking down year after year starting when she saw Dr. Robert Weber and his brother. She was 42.
My mom is now 69 years old and I am 43. Because of the full brain radiation that Dr. Robert Weber put her through and the malfunctioning shunt that Dr. Peter Weber place into my mom's brain, she can only say a few words, she cannot walk, she lost use of her hands, she cannot eat on her own, she cannot use the bathroom on her own, she requires full time care from her adult kids, and she cannot tell when we are in the room with her. I have a 13 year old daughter who will never know my mom's laugh and personality or the full extent of her love because of Dr. Weber and his brother. The statute of limitation is 1 year for legal action. We were too busy trying to keep my mom alive and trying to understand how to care for her by the time we figured out what he and his brother had done to her. Do not go to this man or his brother Dr. Peter Weber who is currently working at CPMC. Some people might have benefited from their care. But Dr. Robert Weber has a wake of lives he has destroyed behind him. read more