Hand Surgery Associates

Dr Clinksales or whatever his name was was assigned to me my first few days in the hospital and opened up my finger after I contracted MRSA and almost died. I spent 45 days in the hospital — Sky Ridge. that’s another bad review. Anyway, this doctor pretty much filleted my finger and actually left it open with the tendon exposed. Pretty much ruined the tendon and now I have a hook finger. That is not the only issue… he told my mom and friends in the waiting room that I was going to die. He was also very high and mighty with his attitude and the nurses were appalled that he left my hand in such a condition for 30 days. some of them wouldn’t touch it to redress the wound and had to call a special wound doctor. It was a simple draining of the infection in my finger and he cut it open and left it that way. He also tried to use a skin graft that failed in a second surgery. What a quack. Don’t use any of these doctors!

HORRIBLE experience with Dr. Heyman. Words really can’t do justice on how awful my experience was with him this afternoon. Second time in to see him because arm pain, swelling, and now irregular appearance (lumps under skin and protuding vein) were persisting. He was incredibly condescending. Simple questions that I was having to ask because, for the second time, he had just briefly looked at my arm and told me he didn’t have any answers and didn’t recommend anything. I understand if a patient comes in with a condition that you don’t have answers for but there is absolutely no reason to be rude, disrespectful, and arrogant (at one point he sarcastically said ‘so what, do you want me to just cut your arm open and see if I can find the issue that way?!’). I suggested that maybe I should get an ultrasound or MRI since he had no (absolutely NO recommendations on what to do next) and he told me he felt an ethical responsibility to not request that for me because you only do those things if you think something is wrong and he didn’t think anything was wrong (even though my arm is swollen, ive been in pain for 8 weeks, a protruding vein and lumps have shown up where the pain is). I responded by asking him what he’d recommend and he literally got up out of his chair and started to leave the room because he was visibly annoyed by my questions. I left the appointment in tears. Never in my life have I been treated so poorly. And by a ‘doctor’ nonetheless. I really wish I would’ve read the dozens of other online reviews of him (
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Based on all the other reviews I am really glad in what happened with the terrible manners I received when I tried to schedule an appointment. I was rudely hung up on by Victoria. She did it on purpose and could not have been more rude. I am seeking treatment elsewhere as I will never give this place a dime. Terrible, terrible, terrible.

I went to this quack a few days after a head on collision. My appointment was @8:15 and I got to the exam room @8:55. The doctor came in and didn’t even look me in the eye, ask how I felt or if I was in pain, total robot with no bedside manner. No vital signs were taken. After the exam he just left and never asked about my pain. It turns out my shoulder was slipping in and out of the socket. I asked for pain meds. He rudely said you can get them from some other doctor. They give me ultram and I mentioned something about them being on 60minutes, and she said I don’t want to give this to you, you might sue me. UNBELIEVABLE! I got a refund and left.

Don’t waste your time here. I drove a couple hours from out of town to come to this place. I was in tremendous pain, and they wouldn’t do ANYTHING FOR IT. Gave me a cortizone shot, put both hands into splinters but wouldn’t give me anything for the great deal of pain I was in. I called back almost two weeks later and they told me to take tylenol for my pain. Really? Think I haven’t done that? Doctor that I saw, Kovachevich, looked like he just got out of high school, very inexperienced.

I amputated the tip of my right index finger in a restaurants bathroom door in a freak accident one night.
After visiting the ER at Swedish Medical Center I was referred to Dr. Rovak at Hand Surgery Associates. They were nothing but amazing and helped me though every step of my 3 surgeries including taking a tissue graph from my palm to replace the missing tissue on my finger.
Their in house Therapy department was just as fantastic and gave me the tools to get my finger back in working order. I worked primary with Dave but also had great experiences with Nancy and Tiffany as well.
I couldn’t have asked for a better experience of such a horrible situation! Thank you Dr. Rovak and the entire team for giving me my finger back! :)

Reviews of a Doctors office… I don’t know. I mean they are going to be subjective. Heck all reviews are going to be subjective, right? But is my issue the same as your issue, did I describe it as well as you?
Still, a visit and services rendered. I am writing the review because why not and I need to get some more reviews in…
I had a lump forming on a finger, assuming it was a cyst of sorts I headed off to my primary care physician and was referred to Hand Surgery Associates. I made my appointment and showed the person taking my information down. They took an x-​ray of it and I questioned it because I was fairly sure it wasn’t going to show up on an x-​ray as it wasn’t a bone or hard like a solid. I was told they do x-​rays on all of them. I went with it, not my place to argue. The doctor came by the room and said he didn’t see anything on the x-​ray and wanted to know what I was seeing and asked me to describe it. I told him he should just feel it and that it hurt to move and to put any pressure at all on it. He felt around and looked at the x-​ray and said he didn’t know why it wasn’t showing up because there was something there. I told him I thought something more sensitive than an x-​ray would probably be the best but it wasn’t my place to say. He said he could open it up because there was something out of place but that it might be a nerve or tendon that is out of place or inflamed. He said it could also be a blood clot. His recommendation was to just wait it out and see if it gets better instead of cutting into my finger.
Good place if your looking for some feel good we don’t know what is wrong but we don’t want to go looking to find out. Didn’t try to push surgery so I have to give them that.

When I decided to go here I read the reviews and thought «who writes reviews on doctor’s offices?» And now here I am signing up for Unilocal just to do the same. This place is AWFUL! The doctor met with me for no longer than 5 minutes saying I needed a cast and then rehab. He ended meeting with me by saying «well I guess I’ll just check on you sometime». HUH? Yeah right, never happened. So a lady there makes my cast and tells me I need to come back in a week for a new cast and that they will provide me the rehab after the cast is removed. AFTER I pay my copayment the following week a nurse tells me I don’t need to be there, that I did not need to cone back in nor did I need a new cast. That was it. I never heard from them again. (Do not try this at home) therefore I ended up removing the cast myself and googling how to do the rehab.

Incompetent or just liars, one of the two. Stay away if you need use of your fingers.

I like’em, I visited Dr. Sachar per a friends recommendation. He was thorough, direct and got me on my way after answering all my questions. I like that they had my xray on his ipad and you could zoom in on my injury (I guess it been awhile since I last had an x-​ray). Thorough, efficient and freindly office.

Ick, this place is a joke. When i broke my finger, my primary care referred me to hand doctor who was booked, so as a second resort i was sent to the Hand Sugery Associates. First off, the place is old and could really use some fresh paint. The nurse i saw had basically no knowledge to my questions and spent all of 15 minutes with me. On my second visit, the same NP didn’t even take the time to take off my splint to check my finger and lasted maybe 5 minutes (talk about a waste of insurance dollars!). I had some concerns about my finger, which went unaddressed, until the NP called me 3 WEEKS later to tell me i would have to postpone my next visit another 2 weeks because she finally made the time to ask a doctor about my questions. Now, 3 days prior to my appointment, i was called to reschedule as the NP has another appointment. I’m not even going to bother going back; waste of time and money.

Worst doctor i’ve ever had the displeasure of going to. Uncaring, arrogant, dismissive and completely unhelpful. I walked out of my appointment with a very good idea of what the so-​called doctor thought was not my problem, but with absolutely no help as to what might have been my problem or any recommendations for treatment. I felt as though i was completely disrespected and that this so-​called doctor was utterly disinterested in helping or healing. I would absolutely NEVER go to this practice again.

I’m going to have to agree with Lisa M on this one. The doctor I saw spent about three minutes with me before informing me that nothing could be done to help. More of his questions revolved around my laptop than my hand, and his answers to my questions were short, shallow, and unsatisfying. For a firm with such a specific focus, I was shocked at how informal and unprofessional my visit felt. I’ll be looking elsewhere for another doctor willing to spend the time to help.