Stanford Orthopaedic Surgery

this review is for Dr. emili Chaung. I went to see her for my shoulder pain. Her bedside manners is zero. She has no interest to her patients. She just told me to do physical therapy. She did not want to even come to the room and see me. She sent her nurse practitioner to see me. She is a horrible doctor.

I lead an extremely physical and active life. The pain I was experiencing limited my activities and made life miserable. I had surgery with Dr. Alamin in November 2014. I am thrilled with the results. I have resumed my active lifestyle and I am optimistic about my future. The only negative is the lengthy recovery. The first week after surgery was very difficult. It took a few months of physical rehab before I began to feel better. The last few months of progress have been nothing short of exciting ! Dr. Alamin gave me my life or at least my lifestyle back. Nice guy too.

This review is for Dr. Emilie Cheung. I have been suffering with an elbow injury from a 30 year old motorcycle accident and this was my 4^th surgery. Prior to the surgery, i was suffering on a daily basis with lack of mobility and sever pain. AFTER the surgery, my pain is almost totally GONE and my range of motion has improved! Dr. Cheung is a supremely skilled surgeon, warm and informative and I felt very comfortable and confident with her and her whole team. Stanford orthopedics is amazing and the entire process from pre-​op exam to scheduling to the surgery, recovery and post-​op checks were totally effortless and pleasurable. If you need some hand or upper extremity work, I can’t recommend Dr. Emilie Cheung highly enough.

This review follows a year of sciatica & terrible pain that was brought to a halt by the amazing skills of Dr. Todd Alamin.
Was miserable and at a very low point in my life throughout 2014. I was referred to stanford orthopedics by a coworker of my dad who had successful lumbar surgery at stanford. Ending up connecting with Dr. Todd Alamin, he is definitely one of the most awesome doctors out there! He spent as long as I needed answering my questions and wasn’t trying to run out of the room like the other doctor I had been referred to.
I ended up trusting Dr. Alamin to carry out a major surgery that could fix me up, a l5-​s1 fusion with l2-​l5 laminotomy. The surgery took around five hours and it worked! I am about 99% better! I only have a very small amount of pre surgery symptoms on rare occasion! I ride my motorcycles all the time and drive my mustang again. I had the surgery in December 2014, here I am March 2015 already completely cleared to resume normal activity! Going back to college and trying to find my path in life!
All in all I am very satisfied with my results, I will now be able to live a normal life, just going to have to make healthy choices for the rest of it. I highly recommend Stanford to anyone who has a serious spinal injury, they don’t even require a doctor’s referral! You can look them up on the internet and give them a call, they’ll accept your case and treat you like a human with respect! No more unattached doctors, get the one who wants you to get back to normal life.
I managed to fly off my dirtbike and separate my shoulder in a grade 5 separation a few months after my fusion. My back survived the crash and my xrays look great! Dr. Emilie Cheung was able to see me quickly afterwards and will be repairing my shoulder soon. She was friendly and helpful in our visit, I will be updating this review after the surgery.

This review is for Dr. Emilie Cheung on behalf of my wife.
After two failed operations I was told by then doctor my humerus bone would never heal. Enter Dr. Emilie Cheung, Stanford Orthopedic Hand and Upper Extremity Center, the operation was performed July 15, 2014 and 6 months later I was released by her with my arm healed and intact. As is said ‘the third time was the CHARM’ as she is and all the staff at Stanford Hospital.
Extremely thankful — Marilyn & Family

This review refers to my wife’s visit to Standford Orthopaedic Surgery in Redwood City and especially Dr. Derek Amanantullah, MD. Stanford should be embarrassed for hiring such an inept and biased doctor. He clearly cannot put his ego aside and give decent patient care.
Dr. A. seemed nice during the appointment, however, he clearly did not want to operate on my wife’s hip. He ignored her pain complaints, the reports from our internist, physiatrist and the MRI, and X-​rays that we had done elsewhere. He offered instead some very invasive procedures like a sacral fusion and a psoas bursae injection. Our own doctors had ruled these out as painful and not addressing useless. We were there to get hip surgery. Dr. A. kept raising his voice and saying «I am a hammer, you may not be a nail but a screw.» Well, Dr. A, if my wife is a not a nail-​you can’t nail her– and if she is a screw then screw you.
We have had until now, excellent care at Stanford Ortho. Now, we must look elsewhere. I hope to find an excellent surgeon who is skilled and compassionate.

This review refers to my surgery and follow-​up care with Dr. Todd Alamin in this location, a satellite office of the Stanford Hospital and Clinic.
As unhappy as I was with my treatment by Dr. Todd Alamin, I thought I’d be more objective if I were to wait an entire year after my surgery before posting a review.
I get the feeling that this is a very lucrative business for the University, after all, 8 out of 10 Americans will experience back pain at some point in their lives and this new, spacious facility on Broadway was built just for us. State-​of-​the-​art equipment, floor to ceiling windows overlooking an expansive courtyard, a piano playing in the lobby, what’s not to love?
A little background, I’ve suffered from intermittent back pain over the last 20 years, beginning with some snow skiing spills, waterskiing, tennis, carrying children, etc., and it all caught up with me. Cortisone shots and physical therapy worked for a few years but after my last set of shots in 2010 my compressed discs started causing my legs to go.
I’d seen 3 doctors, one at UCSF, one at Seaton and Dr. Alamin here at Stanford. My insurance approved the surgery at Stanford, not sure why it was denied at Seaton, it must be something about the surgery method or administrative or cost, but I could no longer manage the pain, so when the approval came through Alamins office and he had availability the following week, I went in.
I had surgery at the hospital on the main campus. The hospital was packed, no rooms to put me in for my one or two night stay, but I broke out in hives from something they laundered the sheets with so I got up at midnight and waited for a doctor to discharge me, leaving before morning. The staff here, in the old, overcrowded hospital really stands out as a kind, caring crew. Even the way they spoke to each other, always respectfully, in sharp contrast to the group at Redwood City.
Once home, I never received a call from Alamins office. When I called 4 weeks later with questions about pain that was increasing, I was told not to call back. «We’re not equipped to handle pain management, call another doctor.» I was told by the irritated woman, and «You can come back in 6 months» (they have a predetermined schedule for follow-​up based on minimum industry standards) After surgery there was never a look at my spine or either surgery site — focus was on the comuter monitor. Every call, every visit here is the same, you’re a nuisance. No one pleasant working here — they even bicker with each other in front of patients.
I have no idea what statistics they use for their own ratings of «the highest level of patient care», but I was underwhelmed. After surgery you will be completely on your own. They don’t know how to manage after surgery care and I really don’t think they’re interested. Perhaps if they knew how many people were unhappy they’d have to change their slogan. I had complications at the bone graft site (the incision wasn’t made parallel to the midline but nearly perpendicular) and needed another surgery to clean up Alamin’s work. He cut through the cluneal nerves over the graft sight causing more pain than I was in before my surgery! In retrospect I wish I’d waited for Dr. Slosar at Seaton — it was pretty stupid of me to go the spine surgeon who’s calendar was wide open.: /