Yang, Michael C, Md - Eldorado Pain Management

...I've been Dr. Yangs patient for about a year, and Had no problems. His PA on his staff whom got deployed, was particularly helpful. His MA's are also all very attractive (all female staff), making pain much more tolerable!! Regarding the previous comment: Im not an MD, but normally patients are NOT placed on additional narcotic pain meds for post surgical pain--they should not ""double up"", just because of ""new pain"" (if you will). It just doesnt work that way, because the body is already being treated for pain. This, especially when a patient has been on moderate through high maintenance levels of narcotic meds to begin with. An Anti Inflammatory, or something of that nature would be much more appropriate. In addition, this type of patient probably wouldnt receive any ""additional"" reflief from pain, because tolerance most likely would have been reached. Further increasing would simply raise tolerance thresholds and not even provide any further pain relief to begin with! Its sortof like giving more narcotic pain medication would be beyond the point of dimenishing returns. Dr. Yang in my mind was very Appropriate. SSM more

My husband and my mother go to Dr. Yang. Both parties have had multiple surgeries on the same joints (one hips, one shoulder). The med levels my mother and husband are currently on do very little for alleviating their pain. Yet, at every appointment the staff pushes to have both of them reduce their pain medication. My husband was scheduled for this fourth surgery as his shoulder is continuously slipping out of the socket (apparently that’s not painful.) The surgeon said we had to go to Yang to get post op. meds. But Yang said he would not give him any more meds for the post op pain. Apparently this pain specialist does not understand that a maintenance level of meds is not adequate for post op pain… Looks like my husband is going to have to keep living with a shoulder that continuously dislocates because he can’t get pain meds for the surgery. ...We are not quite sure why these people went into pain management as they seem to refuse to manage it...They have literally told him, to just live with the pain, it’s just a shoulder. So I will say this is closing: IF YOU WANT A PAIN DOCTOR WHO WILL KEEP YOU IN PAIN AND YOU LIKE BEING TREATED LIKE DIRT....GO TO YANG AND HIS STAFF!! Pros: Neg. 5 stars! (I HAD to put one star) Cons: He and his staff have not interest in alleviating pain! more