MY husband has suffered from toe pain for over a year. First x-ray was done last Oct. and showed nothing according to Podiatrist at the VA. He prescribed Tramadol for pain. Well months later still in pain and another x-ray, so dr. decided to do "exploritory surgery". When he cut open the toe(by the way I forgot to mention, my husband could feel a knot on the toe but the dr. could not) anyway, he said he saw it then and "scraped the bone". Well that was in May. Husband still in pain worse than before, and podiatrist said it would take a year for it to heal. The toe now will not bend. Well today he went to the red team dr. and she looked looked at it and said "he sure messed up your toe", and she said I've got something that will take care of the pain and of course gave him a script for Tramadol...Question, can anything else be done? Is this dr. liable? Should this be reported? I'm sure the red team dr. did not write what she said down and probably would not go against another dr either. Just wondering...
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MY husband has suffered from toe pain for over a year. First x-ray was done last Oct. and showed nothing according to Podiatrist at the VA. He prescribed Tramadol for pain. Well months later still in pain and another x-ray, so dr. decided to do "exploritory surgery". When he cut open the toe(by the way I forgot to mention, my husband could feel a knot on the toe but the dr. could not) anyway, he said he saw it then and "scraped the bone". Well that was in May. Husband still in pain worse than before, and podiatrist said it would take a year for it to heal. The toe now will not bend. Well today he went to the red team dr. and she looked looked at it and said "he sure messed up your toe", and she said I've got something that will take care of the pain and of course gave him a script for Tramadol...Question, can anything else be done? Is this dr. liable? Should this be reported? I'm sure the red team dr. did not write what she said down and probably would not go against another dr either. Just wondering...
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