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    Offutt Dr Christopher DPM

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    Great Doctor. Great Toe surgery. Great Orthotics. Great Staff. Very skilled and caring. Office was very clean.

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    San Luis Valley Health Regional Medical Center - The RMC houses lab, x-ray, cardio, the ED, inpatient rooms, Labor & Delivery, Cardiopulmonary, Pediatrics, Women's Health,ENT, & Surgery

    San Luis Valley Health Regional Medical Center

    2.2(5 reviews)
    0.2 mi

    I have never been treated well here. Nurses do their jobs even though some have not been properly…read moretrained, doctors are biased and let that get in the way of actual treatment and care. I honeslty would rather die from an emergency now then ever trust this ER.

    This review is of a single so-called "doctor" affiliated with this Hospital, although my review of…read morethe Hospital overall wouldn't be much better. I'll detail that train-wreck in a separate review. I will also not dignify this hack with the respected title of "Dr." I fell on black ice and shattered my ankle in Mar. 2022. I was told (after the fact) by several different medical professionals that if they had seen my x-rays, they would have immediately sent me to a big city hospital (Front Range, Colo.) - the multiple fractures and mangled joint made this too complicated for any small-town doctors to tackle... at least for those who would acknowledge their own limitations. But Jeff Oster, a Podiatrist (with no documented Orthopedic or Surgical training; the type of doctor who typically treats bunions and ingrown toenails) arrogantly announced that he could fix the complicated, screwed-up joint. Not only did he repeatedly -- condescendingly and misogynistically -- dismiss my pain, he even went so far as to prescribe dangerous, long-term anti-depressants and mental/behavioral-therapy *less than a week after surgery, while denying me the anti-nausea meds that made the prescription painkillers doable.* Lastly, the procedure itself was an utter, abject failure. He failed to lengthen the shortened/shattered tibia to complete the joint; the dozen screws and two plates he inserted did nothing to close the sizeable gap between the bones; the tight-rope he claimed would hold the joint together was in the wrong place, stretched across soft tissue, not anchored to the bones; and one of the screws was already starting to fall out before I'd even begun weight-bearing. I was immobilized in a hard cast for 8 weeks (a damaging and "archaic, antiquated" practice, according to a later surgeon). Orthopedic Evidence-Based Best Practices (for the last 20-30 years) say that you can cast long-bone fractures, but joints need to regain their mobility as soon as possible... and I'm living proof as to why. A second opinion from a highly competent Olympic-athlete-grade surgeon led to an urgent corrective/reconstructive surgery, but that only took care of the original damage from the fall. The Good Surgeon removed all of Oster's low-grade hardware, and replaced it with far less: only one plate and three screws, plus he lengthened the stunted tibia to complete the joint. But that wasn't the end of my year-long journey through hell. Yet another (3rd) surgery had to be done several months later to lengthen the Achilles tendon, which had contracted horribly during Oster's prolonged immobilization; the scar-tissue buildup from 9 months of no significant movement also had to be removed (release of the joint capsule). It's taken a full year for me to begin walking again without assistive devices. Yes, the break was very bad, but it should only have been 3-4 months at most, not 12 to get me walking again. Jeff Oster's overweening arrogance nearly cost me my mobility - I would have been crippled for life had I not sought a second opinion.

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