UMC Neurosurgery

Dr. Taylor lacks sympathy, empathy, and compassion. He is prejudice and lacks common social skills. I would not recommend this man to anyone. Lubbock has great doctors, but this man is not one of them. He may be skilled, but I couldn't get past his erogance and the rudeness to find out.
Mar 30th, 2024

I'd just rather not go into detail about my visit. All I know is that I will be looking into a second opinion with someone who will take me seriously and not just assume . I'm sure others had a decent or good experience but unfortunately I cannot say I had the same .
Nov 9th, 2023

Ok so I've had two major surgeries on my spine through UMC neurosurgery. The first time in May 2016 went well (C2-3, C3-4, and C4-5) except the fact they only sent me home with a two or three days worth of Tylenol 3 and refused to get me anything else when the Tylenol 3 wasn't working. Just recently, February 2nd, 2024, in fact I had the second operation, and from my understanding they were going to go in and repair some of the changes in the old plates from the surgery in 2016 and said that they were going to do a full fusion from c3 to T2 and "possibly more." Therefore my understanding was that they were going to go in and put the plates and screws in again since the discs space between each vertebra are narrowing and without plates will continue to do so until it reaches myelopathy and I'll have to have it reopened and operated on again. I did not know until afterwards that they did not put plates from C5-6 , C6-7, T1-2, and T2-3. Instead they went and put pins in those areas. According to an x-ray that I had to have due to a popping sensation in my left shoulder blade the previous night and only a week after the surgery could tell that my disc space in between the pins that were installed are moderately to severely narrowing, and X-rays aren't the most reliable at seeing details. I question why the know what we arey didn't go ahead and just do everything while they had me in the operating room because it makes sense to go in and tackle everything at once and not have to go through what was the most excruciating pain I've ever been through that I wished and hoped to never go through again. In fact I never knew such depths of pain existed. I should be looking at PT by now I'm sure, but my appointment gets put off and I'm still here waiting on my last follow up. One very important thing I want to mention is that when I went in that morning on February 2nd, I went in with fully functioning arms and legs. I realized after I got home that's my left arm no longer functions the way it used to. I can't raise it past a certain height which is a little below my waist, and it's very weak so I can't do much with it. I've done some research which has led me to believe that it is something called C5 palsy. Because C5 palsy can cause the exact same issues. So I'm thinking they either cut a nerve or something, but they didn't seem too concerned when I told them about my arm not working. Another thing was that when I went and got the x-rays the day after I hurt myself, I was supposed to be called the very next day to be told the outcome of those x-rays but no one ever called me and told me and to this day I still have pain that I didn't have up until that point. They could have at least called to see how I was feeling. It's my left shoulder blade that I have pain in because something very near that area of my spine had popped left me with a painful shoulder blade. So if I were you, they are very good at performing the surgery for the most part. But they do need to work on is being more attentive and listening to their patients because the patients know what they're feeling. Right before I was to leave their office , because they told me for a second time that it's not my spine but my hip and there was nothing they could do about it, it came to mind to have them look at an MRI that I had last December right before I was to leave their office. I went ahead and went to see a hip specialist and right away she told me from my symptoms that it was not my hip but did it sounded like it had something to do with my lower spine which I told her I totally agreed and have been trying to tell neurosurgery that. So now I'm headed back to them for the L1 through L5 and S1 because I have bulging discs, which I have had since at least 2020, on every level and cannot move at times. I just want them to focus on what they are supposed to be focusing on and listen better to the patients concerns because we know what we are experiencing and feeling. They don't.
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