Nightmare scenario.
Everything was good until a week after my surgery when a blood clot developed. I went to a Chilton Hospital, where he has privileges, at 1am. I was in so much pain they were giving me morphine all night. When they didn't see anything on the CT scan they sent me home telling me Gritsus wasn't returning their calls and I should call him if it gets worse. But the pain couldn't get any worse. So I started trying to call as soon as I got home. Like the hospital claimed, he wasn't calling me back either.
At approximately 1pm, I had to be taken by ambulance to Valley Hospital. It wasn't until I was actually in Valley that his office finally called me. Gritsus continued to do elective surgeries while another doctor had to give me morphine. The doctor apologized to Gritsus for taking care of me because he didn't want to step on his toes, but he could see how much pain I was in.
It wasn't until close to midnight when he got me into surgery. When I started to improve he told me he thought I wasn't going to make it during the surgery.
Approximately a week after that surgery, I started to complain I was getting bigger. Both the nurses and Gritsus told me i was just retaining water and not to worry because it will drain. When I was in the bathroom water started pouring out of my stomach leaving a trail of water all the way to my bed as I screamed for help.
They had to open my stomach again and reclose the wound because of the wound breaking open. While he denies it, I woke up during the surgery and I heard him saying for them to hold me down. Soon after I was out again.
When I was finally out of the ICU and back to my room they were restricting the amount of pain medication I could have. It was every four hours and would only last for two. When I demanded to have the morphine button back, Gritsus told me it should hurt that much because I didn't have the full surgery again. When I became extremely agitated he gave me my button back.
Then a few days later, another doctor saw I was retaining water again and gave me a pill and I peed it all out in no time at all.
I ended up in the hospital for two and a half weeks. While I chose not to sue, despite having a lawyer interested in my case, I did discover he lost one lawsuit for over a hundred thousand and settled one for 600k.
Personally, I wouldn't recommend this doctor to my worst enemy. read more