Michael Loeb, MD

Just saw Dr. Loeb interviewed about a full shoulder replacement for an older gentleman who is a rock climber! This man his shoulder was so bad he couldn’t lift his arm high enough to turn on a light switch or strong enough to hold a glass of water. Dr. Loeb replaced his shoulder and he climbed just yesterday after full recovery of course. Dr. Loeb is awesome.

I had my first replacement in January 2012 and it has been very successful. I can’t throw an 85 mph fast ball, but then again I never could. I would consider myself as an active 71 year old man and I now have a full range of motion that I did not have until the surgery and rehab. I no longer have discomfort in my shoulder. Dr. Loeb was very helpful in sending copies of my X-​rays to my brother who is an orthopedic surgeon in California. My brother was in complete agreement to have the surgery performed. My brother has watched my progress and he is very pleased. I think people need to recogonize that orthopedic surgeons are pretty much carpenters and do not spend a lot of time with hand holding. Dr. Loeb answered all my questions. It does not take a lot of office time to review a replacement.
I am now 1 week after having my other shoulder replaced. The recovery has been very good. I am looking forward to being released from my sling, probably in several more weeks, and starting rehab. nks

This is absolutely one of the worst, flippant and unexperienced surgeons practicing medicine. He completely lied to me about his experience in shoulder replacement surgeries, largely exaggerating his success rate, which I did not realize until it was too late. After my surgery, he immediately left the hospital; the nurses had to call him while I was still in the recovery room. He does not give his patients a full anesthetic block, so he can monitor the nerve damage as the patients come out of recovery. A nurse told me he was running late and had to leave me before I was even wheeled out of the OR. They actually had to call him via speaker phone to access my recovery and block. That alone borders on negligence. The nurses told me he often does this and doesn’t show any regard to his patients.
After the surgery, it became obvious that he placed my shoulder mechanism too high, he left in my shoulder a «button» which was causing me immense pain and something that no other surgeon in this century does, and he was inexperienced in caring for «active patients.» During my several follow-​up appointments in which I was explaining that my shoulder wouldn’t rotate or even move properly, he laughed and said that I was his“guinea pig” because he was used to only doing replacements on «80 year olds who don’t move that much.» In the hall of his office, he actually pointed to one of his patients behind her back and told me to slow down my life like her’s so I wouldn’t notice the problems. He admitted that he didn’t know how to care for someone that needed a full recovery of her shoulder. He told me that if I didn’t have such high expectations of wanting my «life back like it was», then I could learn to live with at least one shoulder that had full range.
He should not be allowed to practice medicine, let alone show his false care of his patients.