Alfredo Romero

Dr Romero did no introduce himself at the time that it was going to give me a pain shot. Not even say hi, when I was risking my back on a procedure. He was very insensitive to the situation I will not recommend him to anybody.

I’ve only seen him a handful of times when I was unable to see my usual doctors in the clinic and I’ve had nothing but bad experiences with him and if I could I would give him zero stars. The first time I saw him he told me it was outrageous that I would be on IV dilaudid at home and that no one needs that if they are at home not in a hospital or on hospice. He told me I had no reason for not being able to work or go to school. Which he had no right saying anyone of this when he doesn’t know me at all and doesn’t single thing about my diagnosis’ and if he did he wouldn’t be saying any of this. Then in the middle of my first appointment ever with him he answered a personal phone call and talked for like 20 minutes and I can’t recal the conversation but I remember my mom and myself thinking one I can’t believe he would answer a personal call and two I can’t believe he would talk about that right in front of a patient. Another time with him he again criticized me about the same stuff. And the reason I was there was because I needed a med refil and it was early but explained to him that we are pretty certain that my shunt is malfunctioning and I have high pressure right now which in the past I’ve never been wrong when I’ve suspected my pressure was high because I know my body and symptoms I get when it’s high. I kept telling him I know that I am early which means I used more of my script than was written but I had been seeing Dr. E and the NP Karen and they’ve been trying to help me deal with the pain until I can get to my neurosurgeon out of state (long story but due to a genetic illness not just any neurosurgeon can safely perform these procedures and they won’t even take me as a patient) so at my last appointment we upped my dose a bit and Karen told me she wanted to start slowly and not increase it too much and see how I do and also she knew when I’m at my worst I take more than the amount written on the script that’s just how they’re writing it they know I’m not always taking the amount it’s written for and Dr. Romero could not understand that and said it’s ridiculous to think it’s okay for me to use more than it’s written and it’s unacceptable and if he was the one seeing me he would say too bad you’re going to have to go without the meds until it’s been a month or he might even just cut me off completely for abusing my medication but since I’m not his patient he’ll go ahead and write for 2 weeks and I can see Dr. E or Karen and they can decide what to do with me but that he was going to write that he recommends they don’t give me anymore. And he also said I’m just having headaches because I’m not having any of the other symptoms like nausea, vomiting, vision changes, etc that you would get if you had high pressure and I told him I do have all those symptoms plus more I have every symptom I get when my pressure is high except seizures and he said I can’t keep coming in here expecting to get more and more pain medication instead of seeing a neurosurgeon despite me repeadtly saying I have been in contact with my neurosurgeon and I am following what he told me to do which was wait a little bit and make sure it’s not the weather because weather does make my pressure go up even with a working shunt so he wants to make sure we don’t do unnecessary brain surgery which Dr E and Karen both agreed with and that’s why they were just trying to help me get through this but Dr Romero says that’s ridiculous to give me more for that and I can tell the neurosurgeon that the pain management doctor is mad and isn’t going to write for anymore pain medication and he can decide if he wants to go ahead and see me but either way he will not give me pain medication for this and he’s going to suggest that Dr E and Karen do the same and that they need to put it in my chart that I’ve been abusing my pain medication which I’m not doing yes I am at times using more then is written on the script but that is with permission from Dr E and Karen and they knew even though they upped it a little it might not be enough for me to get through the whole month like the script is written for because we are still trying to figure out a good dose for me but it didn’t matter what I said he still treated me like a drug addict who is just trying to get him to write for more medication and a lot of what I said he could just not get through his head and it wasn’t just me thinking omg this dude is an idiot how is he not comprehending what I’m saying I could tell the nurse was also thinking that because of the way they kept looking at me and their gestures towards me and also it was the same nurse I had at the last appointment with Karen and also have had many times when seeing Dr E and Karen so they knew what they said and what the plan is. I could go on about other things he’s said and done the few times I’ve seen him but honestly it’s just making me angry typing this out and I think I’ve shared enough for people to understand that they shouldn’t waist there time seeing this incompetent a**hole and should instead scedhule with Dr E and once you are an established patient I also would recommend seeing the NP she’s amazing I’ve never heard a single bad thing about her she’s very compassionate and understanding and both Dr E and Karen have done so much to help me over the years and have really gone above and beyond and have even on their own time researched my conditions and all sorts of things that could potentially help me. Also forgot to mention all the times I’ve seen this incompetent a**hole it was because everyone else was booked and dr Romero always seems to have quite a bit of appointments available and when I sign in I look to see who is ahead of me with whoever I’m seeing and I don’t often see a lot of names of patients seeing Dr Romero so that should say something I honestly wonder if he has any patients he sees regularly.