I was terribly disappointed by the results of this doctor's three- or four-minute examination of my foot. For over a year, due to an injury, I had been unable to walk or stand for any significant length of time. His examination was so painful that I started shaking and crying, which I've never done in a doctor's office. He mistakenly thought that the discomfort was located in the particular spot where he was pressing when I finally moaned aloud, though the whole area had been equally painful from the beginning of his exam. No matter what I said after that, he was convinced that the pain was localized in that one spot rather than throughout the area. He seemed to think I was only coming in to get some kind of pain prescription, which I never mentioned. His diagnosis made no sense to me, that day or later. The next ortho surgeon I saw made an entirely different diagnosis and successfully treated the foot. I would NEVER see this doctor again.
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