Anand Vora MD

My impression of Dr. Vora is that he is an unsympathetic, unethical doctor who does unnecessary procedures/​surgeries without much explanation to his patients. After I apparently insulted his fragile ego, he cancelled my surgery one business day before it was supposed to happen.
Here’s my story– I was in a serious tour bus accident that left me with an injured foot. The emergency room I was originally seen at told me I just sprained my ankle. The ER me and my 11 friends were seen at after the accident had been misdiagnosing people in our group so I saw a specialist a couple days later to get re-​evaluated.
I decided to see Dr. Vora partially based on the reviews I found about him online and also because IBJI is one of the few places that accepts my insurance.
Dr. Vora told me my foot required surgery. I wasn’t expecting to be told I needed surgery when the ER thought I only had a sprained ankle, so I was caught off guard. That and I’m a big baby about medical procedures and I’ve never had surgery before. I was crying in his office as he was telling me I needed surgery. He seemed rather cold and unsympathetic towards me. He just had a «this is what you have to do so deal with it» kind of attitude.
Given my experience with the emergency room and their misdiagnosis, I decided to get a second opinion. Surgery is nothing to be taken lightly and effects you for the rest of your life, so I wanted to make sure this was absolutely necessary.
I saw a second doctor at a different IBJI location and he agreed I would benefit from surgery. I decided to keep my surgery scheduled with Dr. Vora because he seemed like a knowledgeable person, even though I did not quite care for his bedside manner.
The two doctors had a different approach for my surgery though. Dr. Vora’s approach was to operate on two bones in my feet making two separate incisions. He was not going to put me completely under for surgery, so I would be awake for the 1 hour procedure.
The other doctor wanted to operate on one of my bones and told me the other one would heal on it’s own. He was planning on putting me completely under for surgery.
I emailed Dr. Vora (that is one nice thing I will say about him, props to any doctor who gives emails or phone number to their patients) to ask more about the surgery. We did not have a consultation about my surgery and he had not properly explained exactly what was going to happen. After I emailed him, he called me and explained some things, but I could tell he was eager to get off the phone and wanted to spend as little as time as he could explaining what was going to happen.
A business day before my surgery, I had more questions, so I emailed him again, in the second email I said I saw «another podiatrist» and that doctor said I only need surgery on one bone not two, so I just wanted clarification for why I needed two bones operated on.
Dr. Vora then left me a voicemail saying, «I got your email, just to clarify, I’m not a podiatrist I’m an orthopedic surgeon that does foot and ankle surgery. I’m going to ask you to treat with the other doctor.» wished me luck, etc. blah blah. It’s clear he cancelled the surgery because he was insulted I called him a podiatrist instead of an orthopedic surgeon, and that I got a second opinion. As if normal people who don’t work in the medical field know the difference between a podiatrist and an orthopedic surgeon specializing in foot/​ankle.
Him cancelling on me so last minute left me in a bind, as I had this surgery scheduled 2 weeks and now on Friday evening I was told I have to find someone else to do the surgery. His cancellation delayed my surgery by another week, which is one more additional week I will have to be on crutches for.
I ended up having surgery with the doctor who I had the second opinion from, which I’m glad I did, because I would not have been able to tolerate having surgery for the first time while I was conscious. I was terrified to have that surgery. Dr. Vora should have noticed that as I was crying in his office when he told me I needed surgery. He interpreted my fear as me questioning his ability.
But now that I have been treated by the other doctor, I do question his methods for how he wanted to treat my injury. I obviously wouldn’t recommend this person to anyone. I’m amazed to see the nice reviews about him, but they are a couple years old so maybe something has changed from that time.

He’s amazing. I saw 3 doctors before him and none of them took the time to listen to me. Dr. Vora sat and listened to my concerns and recommended surgery. He gave me several options on what I wanted to do with treatment. He was very kind and understanding. Definitely recommend him.

Dr. Vora and his staff were excellent. Surgery went exceeding well and I’ve had a great recovery. Dr. Vora is very patient and information and spends all the time you need with you.