Jack Schuberth, DPM

Dr. Schuberth is my hero. I could barely walk three years ago, and he performed a simple surgery, (subtalar fusion), after another doctor told me that I had no hope.
I now backpack in the High Sierra painlessly.
He’s a genius!

The best thing I can say about this doctor is that I can walk after surgery he performed for a broken ankle. The only other reviewer mentioned his arrogance, which was of a level I had not experienced previously. He erred during the surgery. To his credit, he admitted it. However, he didn’t apologize. He denied that problems that developed could be related to the surgery. He claimed to have performed 10,000 of the same surgery that I had and that I was the only one that this happened to. Lucky me. I, unfortunately, had broken my other ankle some years prior so I sort of knew what to expect. My experience with Dr. Schuberth was exponentially worse than with any other doctor. Ever,

I honestly wasn’t sure if Dr Schuberth and I were going to get along. He’s a pretty skeptical doctor and my long term foot issues/​surgeries left a bad taste in his mouth. I think when I first arrived he thought I was «doctor shopping» for pain meds… which I wasn’t. (I don’t do meds. If I’m going to kill my liver, it will be with expensive Malbecs.) Anyway, he «finally» took my case after 3 other DPMs at Kaiser couldn’t figure out what was wrong.
What I liked most about working with Dr Schuberth was that he was HONEST. When he didn’t know something, he said so… and when I suggested things (like Acupuncture, which did wonders for pain relief) he didn’t scoff.
He obviously has the experience, and a touch of arrogance, to not be intimidated by trying «new» things, which is what you need when you have a difficult case.
Although he didn’t solve the issue, it wasn’t his fault. At the end of the day, no surgeon or technology could have diagnosed the fact that a previous DPM had left medical equipment in my foot. Xrays, MRIs, and Bone scans don’t show plastic… I had to wait 10 years for my body to push some of it to the surface so that the rest could be removed, and by that time I no longer had Kaiser Permanente insurance.