The services I received from A Meyers for a surgical site infection in my hand caused by one of his…read morepartners was substandard care and very disappointing. 1. A MeyerS allowed the infection to progress to osteomyelitis over a 4 month period. During this time, I was in constant pain and my finger had to remain in a splint for 6 months instead of the 6 weeks. I was on various ineffective oral antibiotic regimens during this period. I broke out in a sepsis rash twice and thought I was going to die of sepsis because the infection was so mismanaged. When I asked for a second opinion from an Infectious Disease(ID) physician other than the one A Meyers was using he refused to provide a referral and, despite being in practice in the area for 16 years, said he did not know another physician. His stonewalling me, the patient, for 4 months allowed the infection to progress to osteomyelitis. I finally identified another ID physician myself but A Meyers continued to refuse to provide a referral until my insistence was so strong that he was forced to issue it. The new ID physician (ID2) said that A Meyers said that there was no infection in my hand but ID2 believed otherwise after examining me and ordered the correct diagnostic test(an MRI of my hand). The MRI was performed the next day diagnosing osteomyelitis, a central IV (a PICC line) was inserted into my arm, and I was started on a 42 daily infusion of IV antibiotics at a hospital center. The side effects of the antibiotic included extreme nausea and dizziness that prevented me from driving or engaging in normal activities for 42 days. 2. As a former director of surgery in a large municipal hospital, I believe the infection control practices of both A Meyers' office and of the surgery center (owned by A Meyers and his partners) did not meet basic good infection control practice standards. While other medical providers in the area and the nation were still wearing masks for covid, no one in the office or surgery center wore masks except during surgery. I repeatedly had to ask A Meyers to wipe the surface of the office xray machine when filming my hand. And disturbingly, he either could not or would not provide me with copies of all my x-rays. 3. This was the first time I have had surgery at a physician owned facility. It is the last time as I believe both the infection control practices and the quality of the staff were substandard. 4. I found A Meyers to be very condescending and disrespectful. He is obviously unable to diagnose an infection and did not know the correct diagnostic test, an MRI, that should have been ordered to diagnose the infection. The ID2 physician told me it was my right as a patient to go to any physician I wished and readily provided a referral to another surgeon. Without this referral, I would have been unable to schedule an appointment with another surgeon as no one wants to clean up another physician's mess. 5. The additional care I required generated an additional $7500(based on insurance claims) in payments to A Meyers practice. I am left with a deformed finger, constant pain whenever the tip of my finger touches a surface, and the need for continued monitoring for the remainder of my life. A surgery which should have cost $2670 has now generated payments of at least $31,500(based on insurance claims to various providers to rectify the medical issues caused by the original procedure and mismanagement of the infection. I am now under the care of the professors and clinicians of one of the top five university medical centers in the United States. They are closely monitoring the status of my finger in order to prevent a possible amputation--all because A Meyers did not listen to me, mismanaged antibiotic treatment, could not recognize an infection, and did not know the proper diagnostic test to order to determine the problem. My life as I knew it has been taken from me and my family.