Erickson, Vanessa E, Md - Ca Pacifc Orthopedic Sports

I broke my distal radius(wrist) snowboarding and lost feeling in my fingers two years ago. Dr. Smith performed the surgery to put me back together and he followed up with phone calls afterwards. He has also helped me manage some other injuries to the elbow and shoulder with swiftness and simplicity. He is very concise and has a good reputation among the medical community including anesthesia doctors with whom I have a personal connection. Also when I was researching the surgery books to ask him which type of injury it was, he made a remark that the author and him trained at the same facility. more

The most honorable of medical doctors and a gem of a man. "No man stands taller than when he stoops to help a child." Dr. Smith is the living embodiment of this phrase. He has helped so many children (even, while vacationing in Japan, I saw the award that he was given, once while I was in his office - as a child - and he told me the story of how he had been vacationing with his family in Japan and stopped to help an injured child. For this, he was given an award....and it made an lasting impression). One that I will never forget. I was his patient from the time I was 9 until a few years later when he left California to move to Texas. I am now in my 40's and walking better largely in no small part to the work he did. I will always remember his kindness during a time that was frought for me with medical trauma. He is the best. more

Expert, efficient, very responsive more