Holmes Jeffery MD San Jose Medical Group

DO NOT EVER EVER GO TO THIS DOCTOR! WHAT A NIGHTMARE! He was the designated doctor for my husband’s knee injury. From minute one he was arrogant, rude, and minimized the injury. The MRI readout was three pages of injury, he took exactly two minutes with us to say all he needed to do was go in and «clean it up a little» and he would be good to go. HE HAD A TORN LIGAMENT, ARTHRITIS, THE LIST GOES ON AND ON! I had a torn ACL and had a little background on the injury, so I expressed to him that what we didn’t want to do was ignore the underlying issues like I had done initially so that my husband got used to favoring it and put stress on his other knee. He basically treated me like a stupid girl and said that he was a surgeon and that never happens. Uh hellooo, my doctor teaches medical school at UC Berkeley and he’s the one who told me about this!
Needless to say, I went home and looked him up. Uh yeah, MD, JD — so he’s a doctor but he’s also a lawyer so he knows exactly what he legally can get away with not doing in workman comp cases. I’m sure he makes a pretty penny with insurance companies who provide incentive not to do the big surgery. Long story short, he went in and cleaned up some scar tissue, shaved off some bone spurs, and that was IT. LEFT THE REST OF THE INJURIES. He didn’t come in prior to the surgery to tell us what he was going to do. He didn’t stay afterward to talk to him either, he cornered me in the waiting room and gave me some BS story about how he could stay but why bother since my husband wouldn’t remember the conversation. He was more interested in grilling me about HOW my husband got the injury… Oh he must have played sports… NO, he must have been a runner, NO… I felt like he was looking for evidence, not concerned about the welfare of the patient! I was BEYOND MAD, here we are a family struggling to live on disability because my husband got injured at work, after years of not playing baseball etc so he could provide for us. We went through all of the proper channels and now have to deal with a doctor who could give a rip about DOING HIS JOB and fixing what needed to be fixed.
After months of PT, my husband went in for a follow-​up and told Dr. Holmes that he was still experiencing a great amount of pain so he needed to discuss next steps. Do you know what Dr. Holmes told him??? He told him (at age 46) that he had done all he was going to do and that my husband should find a new line of work outside the trades. !!! I was FUMING, and insisted that we have a come-​to-​Jesus with the insurance company. They got a second opinion scheduled with A REAL KNEE DOCTOR who in the first 10 minutes of seeing my husband knew that he was going to need a partial knee replacement. He did an amazing job and my husband is now strong and in a great place 8 months after surgery.
I hope that our experience helps others to avoid this doctor like the plague. Don’t waste your time going through the motions, it set us back 8 months.

A few weeks ago I injured my knee and ended up getting a cut that bled. I just washed it off and put a bandage on it thinking it’ll heal soon. It didn’t. My left knee just became bruised and got really swollen since I didn’t take proper care of it and just basically left it the was it was. Yeah, that was stupid of me, but I learned my lesson the hard way as usual. I’m a klutz, so chances are good this will happen again but next time, I’ll know better!
Anyways, my family Dr. referred me to Dr. Holmes. His office is shared with another person I think as the first desk is for a different Dr. and the second desk if for his patients. He’s nice and easy to talk to. He answered all my questions. He gave me a shot that removed most of the fluid from my swollen knew. I was shocked at how much fluid there was in there. I think it was enough to fill a small cup! He also gave me some antibiotics but I haven’t taken them yet since I’m also a scatterbrain and forgot to pick them up from the drugstore. I’ll make a note of that and do it tomorrow.
Fortunately my knee injury isn’t permanent like my family Dr. said it might be. Yay! I was afraid I’d never be able to bare my knees again in a mini skirt, short dress, or bikini, so this is great news! Thank goodness it’s cold now so I can cover up my nasty looking knee for the time being-:)