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.

Dr. Antero’s quackery has cost me a year of being in a cast or wearing a cast boot, $31,000 (that’s what I’ve paid, not what my insurance company has paid), exposure to decades of radiation, a great deal of stress, worry, and anxiety, and some functionality in my foot.

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.