I've lived in and near Hilo since 1980, and I've had two doctors; because I was in a car accident that wrecked my back when I was thrown out of a window at 70 mph, in 2004.
Dr. Conner between 2004 and Dr. Lewinski since 2012 or 13...
Dr Conner signed me up for medical marijuana and told me to grow it. She also put me on serious opiates.
She charged me about $100 every three months, and she allowed me to pay for my dying friend to get medical marijuana, by training her dog at her house; because I breed and train service dogs as my hobby.
When I would see her, she'd often spend over an hour with me. She would ask me about everything in my life, give me oils, provided me with free medical marijuana, touched my back to feel what's wrong with it at every appointment; and one time she spent about 15 minutes pushing a giant vibrator into a knot between my shoulder blades to ease my pain. She was a hero to many people, and my advocate.
She did everything possible to help me.
I would donate plants when over 7 seeds sprouted.
She'd pass them on to her other patients, and sometimes she didn't even charge me for anything.
Dr. Lewinski never touched me, avoided eye contact, made me travel 50 miles round-trip every four weeks, charged me $62.50, and kept medical marijuana out of my grasp with the higher price of seeing him etc...
Dr. Conner had me get a full set of x-rays and cat scans, and used them to diagnose me.
I don't think Dr. Lewinski ever saw one of my x-rays. Two times since I began seeing him I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance with back injuries; and last December 19th I was hit by a car that was going 30 mph.
Dr Lewinski never bothered to look at those x-rays at all!
Appointments with him only lasted as long as it took him to write 3 prescriptions.
When my friend noticed a new mile on my forehead in 2013, I showed Dr. Lewinski; and he noticed that it was harder and bigger than the mole beside it that's been there forever. But he refused to refer me to another doctor.
He said, He's my pill doctor; but I need a real doctor; in a little bit nicer words. He said that he doesn't know enough about opiates to change my prescription, but he cut it.
I asked him to refer me to a Primary Care physician who he could work with in 2013,
and I still don't have one.
My prostate is so bad that I often have to pee three times in a row before I can get back under the covers. It's been like that for most of the years I've been seeing him. It's hard to not pee on my feet, but I still haven't received a prostate exam.
At our first meeting, he threatened to cut me off if he ever caught me "Doctor Shopping;" so I couldn't look for another doctor.
Doctor Conner encouraged me to use the opiates wisely and skip days if possible, to prevent me from becoming addicted.
Doctor Lewinski insisted that I use 4 30 mg pills everyday, and refused to hear Dr Conner's advice.
When I used them as perscribed by him, after a month I needed more; and less caused violent diarrhea: so I went on a fast and stayed in bed for as much of a month as I could.
When Dr. Lewinski caught me avoiding addiction, he told me that I was going to physical therapy.
HELLO! He never looked at an x-ray after I was hit by a car going 30 mph; or the catscans that were done the other time an ambulance took me to the hospital.
The increased pain of getting hit by a car going 30mph has had me drinking alcohol after quitting when I was 21, but even though I was in his office two days after getting out of the hospital; he didn't even check my blood pressure or pulse.
I know I was damaged by the car, and since I have already been to physical therapy with undiagnosed spinal injuries, and know how much pain that can cause; I consider physical therapy without the benefit of x-rays and catscans a threat of violence against me.
It looks like I'm out of room, and this is only part one of an 8 year review of his malpractice.
I haven't gotten to the parts that explain why I'm filing charges against him for Elder Abuse, and I resent having to give him a single star!
Why are charges being filed against Dr Lewinski? Will he lose his license to practice medicine in Hawaii? Will he commit suicide?
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