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Surgery is scary. The main thing that makes it scary is the possibility it won’t go well. But when you have an incompetent surgeon, the “possibility” that things won’t go well becomes a “high probability.” If I had known about Dr. Patricia Antero’s (Tuscany Podiatry) incompetence before my foot surgery, I certainly would have gone to a different doctor.

Dr. Antero’s quackery has cost me almost a year of being on crutches or wearing a cast boot, $31,000 (that’s what I’ve paid, not what my insurance company has paid), 3 additional surgeries, exposure to a lot of radiation, a great deal of stress, worry, and anxiety, and A LOT of functionality in my foot. It has been 18 months since Dr. Antero botched my surgery, and my big toe STILL doesn’t touch the ground (I’m hopeful that, with all the physical therapy I’ve been doing, my big toe will touch the ground some day soon, but Quacktero really did a number on my foot). Not only that, but I nearly died as a result of Dr. Antero’s incompetence.

As if Quacktero’s ineptitude wasn’t bad enough, my entire ordeal would have been avoided, had she told me about the existence of minimally-invasive surgery (MIS) to fix my original issue! Because Dr. Antero wasn’t trained to do the MIS that could have fixed my issue, she simply didn’t inform me that such a surgery existed. That is, all by itself, unacceptable, especially when you take into account that MIS has fewer complications than the surgery that Dr. Antero performed on me. Had Dr. Antero told me about MIS, my nightmare would have been avoided.