Grillone Gregory MD

I was a patient of Dr. Grillone’s who had a disastrous tonsillectomy. After being re-​admitted to the hospital because I was bleeding from my surgical sites, a complication that effects around 2% of patients regardless of surgical success, I had to undergo the horrific treatment of the doctors at BMC. At no point did Dr. Grillone ever get in contact with me to see how I was doing, but I didn’t think anything of it. Busy doctor, you know. It wasn’t until my post surgery follow up that I decided to no longer put up with his lack of competency. My tonsillectomy resulted in me having a significant change in my ability to taste afterwards, a problem that continues three months later. When I arrived at Dr. Grillone’s office for my visit, he hadn’t even looked at my chart! He had no idea why I had been re-​admitted to the hospital and claimed total ignorance about why I might be having a change in taste. Funny how the doctor has no idea but there have been oodles of cases reported of nerve damage to the tongue causing the same thing from other patients who have undergone this procedure. It was suddenly very important to him when the taste change had occurred-​was it after the first, or the second surgery? (Which says to me «it isn’t *my* fault, right?) He then proceeded to stick a gloved finger down my throat practically in the middle of a sentence and pat me on the cheeks (with said finger coated in my own saliva) before saying «well, let’s see how you feel in a few months».
I feel that the least a doctor should do is pay a minimal attention to their patients complaints and that patting a patient on the cheeks is never, ever appropriate, nor professional.
Stay away.