William L Green, MD

My hero! Seriously. He did a cortisone injection and a follow-​up for my pregnancy induced dequervains and saved me from the surgery someone else recommended. As a new mom facing taking care of an infant with a cast he really did make a huge difference for my families happiness. Now I can concentrate on my baby-​not my wrist. Whew! I found him so compassionate and felt he took plenty of time describing my condition and treatment options. He actually drew it all out for me and he is also quite good at drawing visual aids. Very impressed and very appreciative.

I wish I could give no stars. I came to Dr. Green about 3 years ago as I was having pain
in the upper of joints of both middle fingers. He suggested cortisone which worked
extremely well to reduce the swelling and pain. Into my second year of seeing him, He recommended going in to «clean out» the arthritic tissue that was causing the repeated need for quarterly injections, Naively, I thought «cleaning out» sounded good.
I had surgery end of July 2013 on my right middle finger. It is 1000% worse than before the surgery. First, it is crooked. Second it remains inflamed and I am in chronic pain.
I have had one more cortisone shot to bring down the pain and inflamation…
temporarily brought down some of the swelling and reduced the pain, but is back to
the same swollen and painful condition.
The fact that he took a perfectly straight finger and left me with a bent one is mind boggling! I am now searching for a hand surgeon to correct my poor finger.
It is also a reminder to get a second opinion when surgery is suggested. Unfortunately
I did not.

Very nice office front desk were very nice dr green is very knowledgeable and fast his asst was very nice also

I’m perplexed by the complaints from others. I saw him this morning and really liked the experience. His office staff was fine and I was seen on time. He introduced himself to us and did a great exam of both my hurt hand and shoulder. He x-​rayed my wrist in his office which is sooo convenient and fast. Great experience (and fwiw, I’m a 40 year old woman so not sure about the other insults hurled at him).

Impossible to talk to a person — have to wait forever to connect.
Rude receptionist. My husband was referred to him on Monday August 20^th and the awful receptionist said he could see doctor Green on September 19^th. Terrible attitude as well

Dr. Green is the finest Doctor I have ever seen. He was patient, kind and respectful. He was more than knowledgeable about diagnosing my injury and provided excellent care. It is my belief that he is a true healer.

Seems to have a good handle on what he is doing medically and does take time to explain the situation when asked. End result is «4÷5» on the surgery that was required. Doc is very quick once the appointment is there, he does not spend time on «small talk» more importantly he does take the necessary amount of time treating/​diagnosing.
Office staff is quite disorganized and not competent as other reviewers have posted. Doctor is guaranteed to be late regardless of time of day. All four times was late by 10 – 45 minutes each time.
If you want a competent doctor and are willing to put up with the sub-​optimal staff and late appointments go for it. I would use him again despite the staff/​lateness to make sure I have a competent doctor.

Bill Green is a great surgeon and a good guy. Hi fixed 3 trigger finger tendons in my hand at one time and now I full use of my hand again; that was 2.5 years ago. Last December (2011) he repaired by right shoulder which had a torn labrum, nearly severed biceps tendon, bone spurs, and extensive arthritis. It was a difficult recovery, but after 6 weeks in a sling, it all go better quickly. Now after 5 months I am definitely better than pre surgery and getting better all the time. Dr. Green is a cordial and caring physician, easy to talk to, and very concerned. The couple of bad reviews are just folks who need to vent publicly for reasons of their own. I hope I don’t need more hand or shoulder surgery, but if I do I’m going back to Bill Green for sure

Let’s see, where to start. Arrogant. Always runs late to appointments, often by as much as an hour. Truly HORRIBLE medical assistant, who will screw everything up she lays her hands on, all the while seeming sweet and smiling. Did my surgery, then after I’d done all the post-​op he ordered, the surgery failed. Did he take any responsibility? No. Go somewhere else. You don’t need this grief.

This guy has the absolute WORST front office personnel I have ever dealt with. My boss is a patient of Dr. William Green’s, and I’ve often had to call their to schedule appointments, ask about insurance matters, etc. etc. Without fail, everyone who answers the phone is rude, incompetent, or both.

After being hit by a Cadillac, which was going 40MPH through a red light, I saw Dr. William Green. He grossly insinuated that I had no injuries and was «faking it» I insisted that he give me an actual examine despite his initial impression of me. He reluctantly completed the exam to find that my left shoulder had been dislocated (still is to this day). Getting him to order x-​rays was like pulling teeth. I basically refused to leave his office until he ordered the x-​rays, only hours after the x-​rays were developed I receive a call to come to the doctors office ASAP to put a cast on my broken arm.
He seems to look down on those who are not a part of the upper class.
I don’t know who these people are giving him good reviews, perhaps if you’re a son/​daughter of a Senator or influential businessman he treats you with a modicum of dignity. Are doctors not supposed to treat each patient with equal respect?
Without any doubt in my mind he probably supports the end of: Unions, Minimum Wage, Social Services, etc. I would not be the least bit
surprised if he took a position against medical care for the indigent. It’s shameful that these positions are being taken by so many and so frequently at this time. Doctor Green’s callous attitude would have been poorly received 50 years ago when he was a much younger doctor. Has the «Greatest Generation» forgot what made America Great?

I’ve heard great things about Dr. Green, but I didn’t experience them. My first impression was hearing him swear right outside my exam room. He was upset that I’d seen someone else on a prior visit and didn’t think it was right that I was seeing him this time. When he entered the room, he said to me, «I’m not who you think I am, sorry.» I explained that I’d seen his son the last time (Dr. Scott Green), but that I had intended on seeing him this time as I didn’t get much information out of his son.
He proceeded to examine my hands (both had pain), and while he did give me more info than his son did, I still didn’t feel like he gave me a complete answer on what was going on. I had to convince him that some hand therapy might help, so he wrote a referral for that.
In the end, I did find a new hand doctor, who I am very happy with. I will not go back to Dr. Green as his bedside manner was awful. He made me feel guilty just for wanting to see a doctor.

Been there 5 times and never ever have I been treated on time. I always have to wait atleast 20 minutes in the office before he enters the room, one time I had to wait 50 minutes! He rushes me out to make an appointment for his next visit before asking me if I have any questions. If it wasn’t for my job, I would not have gone back that many times to see him. The reasons why I gave him 2 stars instead of 1 is because of the receptionists there are nice. Dr. Green is just another grumpy old man that doesn’t have that compassion anymore. My recommendations, fine another Dr that’s a little more caring of his patients and willing to sit down and talk to you. He doesn’t seem to care anymore…

He is a very nice man but I do not trust his skills as a doctor. I did the (PRP) therapy in my right elbow but after few days my arm would now straight up. No physical therapy where recommended from him. He asked me just to rest, my arm wouldn’t get better. Another doctor prescribed me physical therapy and now I fell much better. Dr. Green told me that 2 days after the PRP I would go back to a normal life. The PRP worked since my elbow doesn’t hurt anymore but with a very high price as a consequence… 5 weeks without work and after 6 weeks from the precision I still can’t hold a glass of water.

He is very experienced a very patient. My hand was completely immobilized three months ago and now I am able to do things by myself. My hand is not 100% yet but I’m getting better thanks to his treatment

Is there a NO star?
Do NOT go if you are a female over forty.
I was referred to him for hand surgery after I fell while skating and fractured my hand in 2 places. My hand in a splint, bearing x rays showing these fractures, I innocently enter his office. The first hint was an excess of posters of football players autographed to him on the walls. The testosterone must have gone to his head. Listen to what happened!
He hurtles into the exam room and ignoring my xrays, ignoring my wrist splint, he actually yells at me «Your problem is YOU are in menopause!»
Well I found this endocrine diagnosis, verbally HURLED, by an orthopedist, quite amazing. Not facing the fact that I had encountered a woman hater, I tried to point out my xrays, my broken wrist (I wanted an MRI) but such trivia was unimportant to Herr Dr. He actually said it AGAIN: «You are in MENOPAUSE!!»
Well Actually I was not. I had a fractured wrist. There were also three disrupted ligaments later discovered on MRI, but never mind minor details, not if you are a doc with a cross specialty: across the room endocrine assessment & you are Sports Medicine Orthopod Dr. William Green.

Barely two stars are for the office personnel– rude, unresponsive, bored disorganized. And I’m being very generous, mind you. (I feel guilty coming down on individuals who are probably paid fairly low wages.)
Dr. William Green, is more than adequate as a hand surgeon, but totally lacking in interpersonal skills. He started off reasonably responsive in my first consultation (drew a few pictures and actually sat on the stool-​what a concept). However, after that it was all downhill. One must be very assertive (beyond the reasonable) to get answers. The office, experience though, is really, really unfortunate. The staff seem quite depressed, despondent and grouchy. Not particularly professional if you ask me. Yoo hoo, office manager, anyone home? You have a lot of unhappy people there. What up?

Very nice doctor. I was referred to him by Dr Gilbert who recently did my hip surgery and I was happy to see he actually sees patients here in Marin.
Since they are part of the San Francisco office, going there was great as they had all my insurance and medical information on file and I only had to show up. He took great pains (and also pained me but it is a necessary pain to properly diagnose my arthritic problems) and they have a wonderful x ray digital machine latest technology called a fluorscan. Anyhow even
though I have to have surgery and there is no real cure for what will eventually become a quite severe case of osteoarthritis, I feel I am
in the most capable hands and this is after seeing three other bay area hand and arthritis specialists.

Dr Green is a not only a great surgeon he is also compassionate and kind. Since having had surgery, I am thankfully recovering, slowly but surely. My hand is still not a hundred percent but it is SO much better than it was prior to surgery.
I feel grateful to have sought out other opinions and didn’t put all my trust in Dr. Kyle Bickel (who strongly and arrogantly dismissed the idea of surgery to help me).
Oh, also Dr Green and some associates in his group practice for years have been donating their orthopedic surgery/​services free of charge to those less fortunate (in 3^rd world countries) every year. It is good to know he shares his talent and compassion.

I’ve got nothing but praise for Dr. William Green. I managed to severely dislocate my wrist playing basketball (and of course, I didn’t realize it was dislocated until my girlfriend famously pointed out that the bone was completely out of its place).
I managed to get in to see Dr. Green through a referral from one of his partner physicians, who told me that Dr. Green was the wrist and hand specialist for the Warriors, and that he’d be the most qualified to help me out.
Dr. Green took a quick look at my wrist, and got me into surgery only 3 days later to repair everything. I only just got my cast off, but the experience has continued to be great, with Dr. Green giving great service and being very helpful as the process has continued. If you have a hand or wrist problem, there isn’t a better doctor.