John T Whalen

Dr. Whalen performed both lumbar and cervical surgeries for me and both operations were completely successful. He doesn’t interact very well with patients, and I understand why this puts people off, but I would be severely crippled if it weren’t for these surgeries. I also found that his assistant (at the time) was far better at explaining all the details and answering my questions. He my be brusque at times but honestly, who cares?

14 years ago tomorrow, Dr. Whalen saved my life. I was profoundly depressed after a surgeon in another state had performed 3 fusions that failed. I was ready to give up on ever having any quality of life. We moved to Albany (unrelated reason), and I found Dr. Whalen. He took the time to figure out what was going on with my fusions. He did one surgery to correct what the prior surgeon had done, did a second to complete the fusion. When that one failed, he took the time to investigate and figure out why. Turns out I’m allergic to titanium which is why no previous fusion took. He performed an “old school” revision which held. Dr. Whalen is an amazing surgeon who gave me my life back. 14 years later and I am in no pain still, was able to birth a child without intervention, and my only reminder is my scar. Thank you, Dr. Whalen.

I had doctor Whalen for a surgeon on my L3 and L4 vertebrae fusion and I'm telling you he saved my life. I worked construction including roofing for years and my back got worse and worse and no surgeon would help me saying I was too young. Doctor Whalen took my case,did the surgery and I cannot thank this man enough. Thank you doctor whalen

Dr. Whalen is an amazing Dr. He knows what he is doing. He is caring, responsible and attentive about his patients. He just performed a l4-l5 laminectomy and discectomy a month ago. I am healing fine and they kept in touch to see how am I doing. Most importantly I am happy to get my life back.

Dr Whalen is the best

Dr. Whalen is an excellent, professional, knowledgeable, personable surgeon with A-one bedside manner.

Excellent surgeon, professional, personable. Can't say enough good things about this Doctor. He has been my surgeon for many years.

I think he is the best!!! I have nothing but good to say abut Dr Whalen. I had Dr Whalen for both my surgeries and was able to get up the next day and walk had no in patient therapy I did great after both my surgeries. Well mannered remembers you.i will keep him as my Dr. My sister has him,my brother has him.

If you want a warm, and fuzzy dr. dont see dr Whalen. However, if you want an excellent surgeon who has made my life live able again, then go immediately!!

Following a car accident that caused me to have herniated disc in my L1, i went to OrthoNY & my Dr who i saw there at first (Dr. Parikh) gave me a MRI & said he thinks i needed to be referred to back surgeon. (Being only 30 yrs old at the time i asked him if he can do anything to help me before i have to get surgery) he said we can try to cortisone shots, those worked for about 8 months until the last one didnt help at all, He then refeered me to Dr. Whalen. 1 month later i had an surgery appt for an Laminectomy. Surgery went well, He called later that night to check on me. I was very pleased with him. Hes not the type of personality to sit there and joke around, hes very serious & to the point which i respect!