Howard Tung MD – La Jolla Orthopedic Surgery

I have no idea how I never wrote this review but here it finally is.
This guy is a hack, if he finds the opportunity. It’s totally my bad for not having done the research but, at that time, I knew very little about research or any associated details.
I got a «foraminotomy» (amongst other specific-​like titles) for my L5-​S1 region in ’06 because «it might help my back pain» (Tung told me this). I would come to find out that the operation I got is the industry standard for alleviating sciatica, which wasn’t my problem.
Over 20 attorneys later I learn that he has been sued on multiple occasions and he won’t pay or he will drag it out for over 3 years and that won’t be worth it to any lawyer as the max, at the time, I could have gotten for personal injury was $ 250,000.00.
I have a broken back and the operation he performed is for alleviation of leg pain caused by sciatic nerve impingement-​I NEVER HAD THAT!
He was cold to say the least post-​op and when I told him how bad my pain was he tilted his head and said, «come on, it’s not that bad». I couldn’t walk. This guy is crazy and lucky I’m not! He also told me what I had was «out-​patient» which I would later find out is completely false.
PAY CLOSE ATTENTION!!!
He told me there is a ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ chance of it staying the same or getting better-​LIE! All back surgeons will tell you this. The real truth is there is a 33% chance of improvement because it can get better, stay the same, or, like me, get worse. You see how that works? 3 possibilities, not 2 and 1 of them being getting worse. If you do get improvement there is nothing stating you will get to normal or even close to normal rather, simply put, «improvement».