Thomas J. Welle's Online Review Report Card

I had a frozen shoulder, my second in the last 10 years.  MRI confirmed the Dx. Two weeks prior to this post I had the arthroscopy with MUA (manipulation under anesthesia).  After the nerve block wore off I had and still do have a great deal of pain.  I never had a lot of contact with Dr. Welle himself - some pre op, the day of surgery, and a post op.  I believe everything's gone to plan. Everything was explained by him personally as well as two PAs. The way I see it working at Sutter is the physicians do the surgical procedures while the PAs manage the cases - communications, Rx, meet with the patients.  For example, the PA issued a nausea patch to wear behind my ear 2 days prior and the day prior to surgery.  Anesthesia makes me nauseous and I had that experience this past November for bladder surgery.  The PA manages my pain meds and has written the Rx for them.  Any questions I have gone to the Sutter portal and communicate directly to the PA.  Like I said, Dr Welle himself has had several meetings with me for Q&As.  No problems.  No attitude problems, no communication problems, and so forth.  This was my 3rd orthopedic experience on myself and 6th orthopedic experience overall between myself and other immediate members of my family.  I had no problems at all.  I had and still do have complete trust in Dr. Welle and his staff.  If you understand how Sutter works then things go smoothly and as expected.  Use the Sutter communication portal (MyHealthOnline.org. or something like that) after you've become an established patient and they respond within a reasonable time.

He was rude and dismissive. Refused to deal with my issue with a Baker's cyst telling me that if he drained it (standard procedure), it would simply fill back up again and told me I needed a full knee replacement. Other doctors told me I don't need a knee replacement.

Great experience fixed my back

bad experience for me ..

omg ILL stay away from this doctor...

The dr I was scheduled to see called in sick and I got stuck with this guy and he is horrible. No bedside manor and a DO shouldn’t be practicing in orthopedics. PAMF should’ve called me and rescheduled instead of me seeing a different dr that knows nothing About my injury This dr beware he is quicker then Flash Gordon in the room and has no patient care ability

I have had shoulder and knee surgery by Dr. Welle and he is the best!! I highly recommend him. He is very thorough. Explains in detail what he is doing and has done. He follows through and most importantly I feel like a new person. No pain after years of dealing with shoulder pain.

Had shoulder surgery from dr. Welle and it had to be redone he left me in months of pain feeling me full of cortisone shots then after begging him for MRI he told me there is nothing wrong so so I saw another surgeon that read the same MRI two weeks later I was in surgery fixing what Dr welle messed up he didn't fix my shoulder at all this is the reason he didn't want to do the MRI and this is the reason he told me there is nothing wrong sabotage my arm and then lying to me saying there is nothing wrong after the new surgeon read the MRI I was in surgery within two weeks doctor Willy's bedside manners are terrible he's very rude he's quick to Cortisone and slow 2 MRI I think the reason he didn't want to do the MRI is it was going to show that he did not fix my arm at all and left me in pain for months I have now had my arm fixed by the new surgeon things are going well the new surgeon had to fix a terrible rotator cuff tear that was there even after Dr welle said he fixed my arm that's why he didn't want to do the MRI cuz it showed he never fixed my arm in the first place I'm now seeking counsel anybody willing to seek with me and start a class action lawsuit let me know who's in this guy needs to stop

not a good place

Bad Doctor terrible results after surgery