John Daniels's Online Review Report Card

Short wait time Good listener and conversation about my problem Satisfactory outcome

Everyone was very helpful and Courteous answered all my questions

Dr. John L. Daniels is an excellent doctor and a great surgeon. He is very compassionate and thoroughly explains and answers all of your questions. He is very friendly and pleasant. His staff is very friendly and helpful also. I would definitely recommend Dr. Daniels to family and friends.

FIRST VISIT WITH Dr Daniels. He SEEMED TO HAVE A GREAT PERSONALITY AND WAS VERY FRIENDLY. And he explained my situation with my right knee.

Very knowledgeable and caring.

Always very informative

I was promptly seen on the day of my first appointment with Dr. Daniels. His staff took a preliminary X-ray of my problem area (my hips) and Dr. Daniels was then able to review this information with me right then at my appointment time. He answered my questions easily and my follow-up visit was scheduled for the next day. His medical team and ladies who handled the appointment setting were all polite and professional.

WARNING!!!! If you are relying on an ortho doctor to give an honest assessment of your abilities and recommending treatment that will actually help you get better and if he cannot make you better, at least giving you the proper work accommodations so that you don't have to spend your entire day in severe pain or quit your job and have to go to a different career, I would strongly recommend that you do not go to this office. I believe IMO that most of the reviews are fake and paid for. I have friends who have gone here and had similarly horrifying experiences that have negatively impacted their life. Regarding my experience, I was a teacher for very troubled and violent children after moving to a job in a different town. As an older person, I did not expect the challenges that this job would bring and thought that I would be able to help these children. The children were physically violent and I received multiple bruises on my legs and a knee injury that really aggravated my knee. I had pictures of my injuries as well. Dr. Daniels was the second doctor that I saw at the ortho Illinois after seeing Dr. Wellendorf who recommended me to Daniels because he was supposedly some kind of a knee specialist. Well unfortunately I found him to be very uncaring pompous and had a god complex. He was not even listening to my struggles and inability to stand up more than 15 minutes without severe pain, he didn't care to look at my bruises nor did he care that I could not work any longer with the physical requirements and I even had to start a totally different job in a different career because of the severe pain & inability to bend or stand more than 15 minutes in a job that required me to bend dozens of times a day, pick up children who were fighting on the floor and also to stand on my feet for several hours a day. Clearly I could not do these things that my job required any longer after the injury , and my primary doctor even suggested changing careers, which I did. I told Dr. Daniels that I had to do a sedentary job now because I could no longer do the physical work that was required of me. He basically smirked, said there's nothing more he can do except recommend me to physical therapy and that I probably won't improve much more, which clearly implies that I should have limitations if I do go back to my job since he cannot make me much better. Unfortunately when I got my medical records eventually, I noticed what he wrote in my chart was completely contradictory to what we discussed in his office. He actually said that I could return to full capacity at my job, which made zero sense considering the physical demands that I could no longer do and that I discussed with him what I was no longer able to do. He certainly didn't test my physical abilities nor ask me to stand for several hours nor did he ask me to bend multiple times to see what my abilities were, even though multiple times I did report my limitations to him. Rather than give me a clearance to go back to a teaching job with several limitations, he said I could go back with no limitations. Outrageous and a total misrepresentation of my physical capabilities and my condition that I communicated to him . I feel that he discriminated against me as a disabled person and an older person. I feel he was very uncaring and a poor listener and did not care about me. I feel that he just wanted to get me out of the office and move onto the next patient, racking up the dollars with each new patient that he just quickly moved out of his office without really listening and assessing the patients properly and fairly My primary doctor was shocked about this and is very supportive and told me to give them a call about my concerns. Karen who is the nurse said she would call me back in a but when she called back was very curt and did not seem to care in my opinion but she said she's going to call back. I don't have much hope based on the uncaring attitude that I felt and I probably will end up reporting him to the AMA and professional licensing.

WARNING!!!! If you are relying on an ortho doctor to give an honest assessment of your abilities and recommending treatment that will actually help you get better and if he cannot make you better, at least giving you the proper work accommodations so that you don't have to spend your entire day in severe pain or quit your job and have to go to a different career, I would strongly recommend that you do not go to this office. I believe IMO that most of the reviews are fake and paid for. I have friends who have gone here and had similarly horrifying experiences that have negatively impacted their life. Regarding my experience, I was a teacher for very troubled and violent children after moving to a job in a different town. As an older person, I did not expect the challenges that this job would bring and thought that I would be able to help these children. The children were physically violent and I received multiple bruises on my legs and a knee injury that really aggravated my knee. I had pictures of my injuries as well. Dr. Daniels was the second doctor that I saw at the ortho Illinois after seeing Dr. Wellendorf who recommended me to Daniels because he was supposedly some kind of a knee specialist. Well unfortunately I found him to be very uncaring pompous and had a god complex. He was not even listening to my struggles and inability to stand up more than 15 minutes without severe pain, he didn't care to look at my bruises nor did he care that I could not work any longer with the physical requirements and I even had to start a totally different job in a different career because of the severe pain & inability to bend or stand more than 15 minutes in a job that required me to bend dozens of times a day, pick up children who were fighting on the floor and also to stand on my feet for several hours a day. Clearly I could not do these things that my job required any longer after the injury , and my primary doctor even suggested changing careers, which I did. I told Dr. Daniels that I had to do a sedentary job now because I could no longer do the physical work that was required of me. He basically smirked, said there's nothing more he can do except recommend me to physical therapy and that I probably won't improve much more, which clearly implies that I should have limitations if I do go back to my job since he cannot make me much better. Unfortunately when I got my medical records eventually, I noticed what he wrote in my chart was completely contradictory to what we discussed in his office. He actually said that I could return to full capacity at my job, which made zero sense considering the physical demands that I could no longer do and that I discussed with him what I was no longer able to do. He certainly didn't test my physical abilities nor ask me to stand for several hours nor did he ask me to bend multiple times to see what my abilities were, even though multiple times I did report my limitations to him. Rather than give me a clearance to go back to a teaching job with several limitations, he said I could go back with no limitations. Outrageous and a total misrepresentation of my physical capabilities and my condition that I communicated to him . I feel that he discriminated against me as a disabled person and an older person. I feel he was very uncaring and a poor listener and did not care about me. I feel that he just wanted to get me out of the office and move onto the next patient, racking up the dollars with each new patient that he just quickly moved out of his office without really listening and assessing the patients properly and fairly My primary doctor was shocked about this and is very supportive and told me to give them a call about my concerns. Karen who is the nurse said she would call me back in a but when she called back was very curt and did not seem to care in my opinion but she said she's going to call back. I don't have much hope based on the uncaring attitude that I felt and I probably will end up r

Dr. Daniels was very efficient and to the point. He knew what was causing my issue and described what was happening inside my knee in an easy to understand way.