WARNING: If you want to live an everyday life after surgery, I strongly recommend not coming here. If you do NOT want any of these problems, find a different surgeon: Misrepresentations made and cover-up with outright untruths placed in your chart. Inner system email communications were deleted. Then an added procedure you have not been spoken about beforehand, with surgery to take 4 hours and not the 90 minutes you are told to expect? Mid-thigh severe pain to walk, and most nights lay awake from pain from thigh to foot. Told this was my life forever. Being told no one would ever want to touch this leg of the mess that was left in this leg. Complications of severe blood clots but not diagnosed or treated, and I had to find another doctor to help because all suspicious complaints pointed at blood clots, but did he care? No. This surgeon did not respond with continual complaints of a hot leg and excessive swelling reported by myself for months. He saw himself, Home Health nursing care/PT that had to be ordered by another doctor when this one forgot, even after being reminded to do so. When blood pressure was extremely high, this one did not return calls out of control pain levels and a possible stroke at the blood pressure numbers. Still, no call. Damage to lymph nodes during surgery, having to live in a compression suit every day for 3 hours, and a PERMANENT new medical problem. NEVER DISCUSSED as a possibility! Having to purchase $5,000 therapy equipment to try to improve the condition, a recommendation from Lymphologist after buying a $600 recumbent bike recommended by the surgeon but could never be used due to the swelling being so severe the knee could not be bent. . A knee that still has problems over two years later and will not pedal a circle from restricted motion. ALL due to errors of not being treated for swelling, clots, or precautions taken after surgery, like the compression wraps. CPM was not used--nothing was done to safeguard against clots. Forced to buy clothes until this fluid eases off, if ever! Weight gain 23 pounds of fluid in the first week after surgery in the leg spreading all over, with fluid pushing open the skin and weeping fluid. The pain never quits, but this surgeon tells you it's illegal to prescribe pain meds after three months, even with all these complications. BTW: That is not the truth! Sores in the surgical area; deep pain that lingered for over two years and told it would NEVER END; Small round nodules under the skin all around the knee to the front and inside knee. They are painful, and no one knows what they are, but they are multiplying. TOLD AT DISCHARGE BY THIS SURGEON NEVER TO GO TO THE ER. -even if he does not return frantic calls; OR wants A SURGEON THAT DOES NOT REMEMBER to order PT or Home Health Care-OR, changing his mind about that care, leaving you without help; Both happened with this surgeon. IF YOU DO NOT WANT A SURGEON who forgets to re-wrap the leg hours after removing it to check on excessive pain; or fails to protect you with compression wraps, hose, or take any SWELLING AND CLOT Precautions to protect you from blood clots and blames you for the clots...OR FORCED TO INJECT WARFARIN for a year for the clots your surgeon brought to your life. Or develop hematomas in your arm and breast from the warfarin (photo of arm but breast worse) and be told by a vascular doctor. IF YOU FALL AND HIT YOUR HEAD, YOU WILL DIE!! This was a surgery from Hell....ALL I WANT IS TO FEEL WELL WITHOUT MORE PAIN THAN BEFORE THIS SURGEON TOUCHED ME. IF YOU WANT TO LIVE LIKE THIS ........THEN HE IS YOUR SURGEON. GOOD LUCK read more