Ali Akmal's Online Review Report Card

So kind and gentle

Great doctor. Gives excellent care. He cares about not only your physical health but your overall health.

Dr. Akmal has treated two members of my family. He was so very kind with my elderly mother, treating her with respect and gentleness. He was very attentive to her pain issues. She received treatments that helped to alleviate her pain. I highly recommend Dr. Akmal.

This is a very rude doctor. I’ve had a spinal fluid leak back in May 23, 2020 of this year, causing severe headaches along with neck pain. One blood patch from the anesthesiologists of Labour and delivery made the headaches go away, however, the neck pain persisted. Because I had a newborn to take care of, I haven’t seeked treatment for 6 months until I finally couldn’t deal with the pain anymore. My neurologist referred me to dr. Akmal for a second blood patch, to see if the pain would go away. He put the referral in a couple days before the procedure. He obviously agreed to it at the time because it was scheduled. I wake up super early while my husband (whose on night shift is watching my babies, tired) and go to my appointment. He asks me my symptoms and I explain them to him, he says what I’m describing doesn’t sound like a blood patch would help, EVEN though a professional neurologist told him over the phone I would benefit from it. Hours were wasted with him and my neurologist talking back and forth. I got frustrated because I waited 6 months for this, and told him that my time is just as valuable as his, and that it would have made more sense to have this discussion with my referring neurologist BEFORE the day of my procedure. He even signed the papers to do the procedure and was on board and everything until I made my opinion heard. He said he did not agree with my opinion and that we have a “bad” doctor-patient relationship and said the procedure is CANCELLED. Unbelievable. It feels unprofessional and like utter negligence. I complain to the director and he lies and says him AND my neurologist agree that I don’t need this treatment. No, not true. My neurologist told him I would benefit from the procedure, but that simply, he cannot force him to treat me, cause it’s within his rights to not treat a person in pain. This sounds like medical malpractice, and at the very LEAST, he could have said I don’t agree, but because your neurologist believes this would help you, I will go ahead and do the treatment, instead of denying a hurt patient. It’s wrong, and now I have to wait till Wednesday since my neurologist put a NEW referral in for me to get treated by a different anesthesiologist. Even the emergency room, said I should find a different anesthesiologist. Oh and I didn’t make a scene. I told him in a matter-of-fact way, that my time was just as valuable as his. He obviously did not like that and refused to treat me because he literally signed the papers and was about to treat me up until I said that. What a snowflake. I still have the paperwork with his signature of agreeing to treat me too. But he goes and cancels it—-wow, denying a mother-of-two a spinal fluid leak treatment, because she has a voice and an opinion with how things are less than ideal with me having to re-explain my situation and having to basically talk back and forth about why I’m needing the treatment to begin with, with time wasted in between with him volleying back and forth with my neurologist—-any one would be frustrated and voice that it should have been talked about prior to my procedure, not the day of. And then agreeing he would do it only to not agree to do it after I tell him the situation is less than ideal. He’s a snowflake who didn’t like me speaking my mind of the less than ideal situation I was in and ultimately refused to treat me.

Dr. Akmal has been great. Going to pain management you have to understand that it is their job to make sure you don't abuse narcotics. That is pain management. I have had injections, which thankfully have worked. I haven't used narcotics, which I am thankful for. He got me through the pain and headaches I have been having without use of narcotics. I say that makes him a great Doctor. I read some of the reviews and don't agree with the negative comments. Dr. Akmal has been great with me, he is personable and educated me about the procedures he was doing and now I don't have headaches like I have had in the past. Thank you for managing my pain.

A referral was sent to Pain Specialist, Dr. Akmal. The referral was sent the 13th or 14th of November. Dr. Akmal approved based on the information on the referral to go ahead and schedule a blood patch for November 19th, 2020. However when I arrived to my appointment, Dr. Akmal, who agreed to do the procedure, began doubting my symptoms just like the anesthesiologists at labour and delivery, but said he would call Dr. Khan over the phone and if Dr. Khan still believes I need the treatment, that he would continue on to perform it. This just upset me that my symptoms are being questioned, which brought back memories of me having to beg the anesthesiologists to help me back from labour and delivery. My procedure time was scheduled for 8;45...that soon turned to 9;00, then finally 10:00. At this point I felt my time was being wasted, because my referral was put in the week before, he cancelled my procedure because I voiced my opinion. Then lied to the head of the facility!

He is one of the best doctors I have seen! Professional; courteous and knowledgeable. Highly recommended!!

Highly recommended!

Dr Akmal is friendly, gregarious and very intelligent. He is highly recommended.

DO NOT GO TO DR. AKMAI. YOUR PROBLEM WILL BE IN YOUR HEAD. LOOK AT ALL THE REVIEWS ON HIM UNDER MEREDITH PAIN. PEOPLE GIVE HIM ONE STAR BECAUSE YOU CAN NOT GIVE NONE. THE ONLY REVIEW ON THIS PAGE IS HIS OWN. WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT HIM. I GUESS THIS IS IN MY HEAD.