Today is my 1 year anniversary of surviving Sepsis. After a 'routine' appendectomy with Dr Mazalewski I was sent home with a handful of pain pills and told to rest for a few days. No follow up call, no checking in, nothing. Days 4, 5, & 6 I was in the worst pain of my life and every single call to Dr. Maz's office went unanswered & unreturned. Countless calls. Countless voicemail messages. Day 7 my message was angry & desperate and that's when finally someone random from his office called me back and told me to take more Percocet. That was it. Nothing more. So I did and it almost cost me my life. My wife was out of town but thank god over the phone she heard in my voice that the situation was scarily wrong and forced me to go to the ER as she scrambled to catch a flight home. I couldn't drive myself as I could barely function at this point. In the ER I was seen immediately and admitted immediately and that's when I knew I was in trouble. I went into septic shock that next morning. I would soon be told that if I'd waited 1 more day I would've been dead. My kids almost lost their dad because Dr Maz did a appendectomy he would later say must've had a "leaky suture". He chose not to cauterize for a reason he was never able to explain to me. Dr. Maz would make a few angry trips to my hospital room over the next week. He was as unprofessional as anyone could've been. All ego and no empathy whatsoever. During his 3 visits he repeatedly badmouthed the infectious disease doctor who saved my life. He was only concerned with his reputation and how he was being 2nd guessed. His most memorable visit was when he roughly drained the blood from a tube in my stomach and literally emptied it into a paper coffee cup that was sitting next to my bed as it splattered on me, then he dropped the blood-filled paper cup in the sink for someone else to clean up. I kid you not, this actually happened in an American hospital. Him, his office staff and the way they do 'business' is haphazard and dangerous to say the least. Routine surgery is only routine if the surgeon understands that he's not God. Dr Maz does not understand this. Avoid him at all cost. read more