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Learn about my experience with Dr. Patricia Antero’s quackery.
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. Antero’s incompetence before my foot surgery, I certainly would have gone to a different doctor.
After a bad surgery, the first thing that goes through one’s mind is whether or not the bad outcome can be revised with another surgery. And because not much in medicine happens quickly, you’re initially forced to place a lot of trust in the very person who might be responsible for your predicament — your doctor. I know, because thanks to Dr. Antero, I’ve been there.
Before I met Dr. Antero, my foot was almost perfectly fine. SOMETIMES, I had a very minor pain on the top of my foot when I ran. Because I do HIIT (high-intensity interval training), and I box and wrestle, I wanted my foot to be as close to perfect as possible. So I decided to consult my doctor, who referred me to Dr. Antero. My doctor couldn’t have guessed that Dr. Antero would botch what should have been a routine foot procedure. I walked into her office with a minor foot problem that most people wouldn’t notice (because most people don’t do the kind of exercising that I do). I left her office with a foot problem that made it impossible for me to live the life that I had previously lived.
Due to Dr. Antero’s quackery, I had to go through 4 months of wondering if I would ever be able to take a walk around the block again without wearing inserts in my shoes (forget about running, boxing, or wrestling). My ordeal didn’t end there. 5 months after my first surgery, I underwent a second surgery (not performed by Dr. Antero), and nearly two months later, I’m still recovering. I’m hopeful that I’ll make a near full recovery (if I’m lucky, that will be 4 months after my second surgery, which will make my ordeal last a total of 9 months), but Dr. Antero’s quackery cost me $7000 (my insurance paid the rest), some functionality in my foot, valuable cartilage, exposure to years of radiation, several months of my life being in limbo, and a great deal of stress, worry, and anxiety.
As if Dr. Antero’s ineptitude wasn’t bad enough, my entire ordeal could have been avoided, had she told me of the existence of a minimally-invasive surgery to fix my original issue! Because Dr. Antero wasn’t trained to do the minimally-invasive surgery that I needed, she simply didn’t inform me that such a surgery existed. That is, all by itself, unacceptable.