Patient-106

Patient-106 had an unsuccessful surgery with Dr. Kevin Golshani at Nevada Orthopedic & Spine Center. The surgery was rushed, and Dr. Golshani appeared frustrated with the outcome. Patient has been left with pain and significant scar tissue. Patient wishes he had never had this surgery or would have been allowed time to get a second opinion.

My wife made an immediate call to Dr. Golshani's office after the trauma center stopped the arterial bleeding and sewed my Index and Middle fingers up.

Within a day or two, I was able to see Dr. Golshani, and he quickly explained that I needed surgery and ASAP with no time to spare. He could schedule me in the coming 2-3 days for a Friday surgery.

He also made it very clear that if I did not accept his help and do this surgery on Friday, he would not be able to help me moving forward.

He was confident he could fix the issue stating that it was possible for me to need a second surgery down the road to clean up the scar tissue.

I had no time to get a second opinion, and he and his team had little time to prepare for a tendon repair/rebuild and nerve replacements. Not even an MRI could be scheduled. I went into this feeling so rushed.

That Friday morning, I was prepped for surgery, and it was explained briefly what needed to be done on my fingers. From this point on, the surgery seemed to go okay on my end as I was now asleep and then waking up.

After waking up, my parents and my wife stated that Dr. Golshani seemed in a hurry to leave and frustrated with the surgery as it took much longer than he anticipated, had complications, and I believe surgeries were running late as I and they recall.

So fast forward a week and half (maybe a little longer). I believe the stitches were now removed. The healing seemed okay but was shedding a lot of skin.

My fingers looked awful (I will post pictures of all it) but that probably was normal. I started to pull little pieces of skin off of my fingers one day.

I then felt a lot of discomfort and noticed there was a piece of white thread coming out of my finger. Literally a thread from inside my finger was poking out.

We jammed right over to Golshani's office and addressed the issue. They were speedy in seeing me and very concerned as well. They saw the thread and stated that it could have been part of the tendon replacement. My finger was inflamed, and they gave me antibiotics again. Dr. Golshani was out of town on a vacation so the PA had to assist.

Weeks later, the area was very tender but did seem to get better.

Fast forward, now I am doing physical therapy 2-3 days a week. Not missing a beat and following every protocol. I need my hand to work and work well. This P.T. team was awesome. I mean excellent and they worked hard as well as I to get the desired results.

Each time I went to Dr. Golshani for a follow up, it became more and more clear that he was not going to remove the ridiculous amount of scar tissue in my fingers. The therapists were very concerned with all the scar tissue build up and stated it was the worst they had seen.

We continued to work hard to alleviate this, but nothing would work. I even suggested steroid injections at Dr. Golshani's office that went into my palm and into my fingers. This gave temporary relief, but the scar tissue was still so bad, and yet I was told that a second surgery to remove scar tissue was not needed and nor would not help.

I am very discouraged at myself for this accident but also very discouraged at the results and being led by actions that would never give the results I was offered, suggested and implied, not even a second surgery to clean up the scar tissue.

I am in terrible discomfort, pain at times, and just so discouraged at all of it. The expense was astronomical for such poor results.

I think Golshani and team are very nice people. However, I did not pay for just nice in a sense, I paid for skills and at least a mediocre outcome.

I wish I would have never had this surgery or had the time to get a second opinion and had more time to think and learn.

I am even wondering if removing at least one finger might be the route I have to take due to how much worse I feel it is due to the discomfort.

 I am just heartbroken and discouraged at the results and the outcome.