James Choo's Online Review Report Card

The worst experience of my life! I was talking to the injections in my back even though I was nervous, I told him I did not want the injections, but he insisted. So I went for the procedure and proceeded to have five seizures on the table and woke up in the hospital. After that he told me there was nothing he can do for me even though with the injections made my back pain far worse! You wouldn't even consider giving me medication to help me, and I've been living with chronic back and sciatic pain for 5 years now. I would not send my worst enemy to Dr. Choo!

Do NOT and I repeat, do NOT go to Dr. Choo! I wish I had seen these reviews before I saw him! The worst experience of my life! He wouldn’t even meet with me until he put me to sleep 3 times and did an ablation on the right side of my neck. He never once put his hands on me to examine me, but was more than happy to schedule me for a procedure every other week for 3 months…WITHOUT diagnosing me with chronic pain! I was told to just take Tylenol. When I questioned his money making tactics? He refused to speak to me. All I got was a letter stating I no longer would be a candidate for his care!!!! Unbelievable!!!!! He doesn’t care about YOU. He cares about MONEY!! I don’t know how he got good reviews here. Look at the Google reviews!!

Choo is the worst health care provider in the profession! Why? Because he doesn’t provide care. He’s only concerned about money. I have one of the most painful diseases known to man and it has no cure. My pain will never get better and my only hope to any fragment of quality of life is with opioid pain medication. He plays God with peoples lives and to alleviate human suffering is not in his vocabulary. If you truly live life in chronic pain, never listen to a doctor who tells you that you’re at the maximum dosage. They’re lying to you! Check with the FDA, there is no such thing as limits on dosage foAll this jerk wants is to talk you into his occupational therapy area. I don’t need therapy, I need opioid pain medication and he refuses. I hope you read this Choo. You don’t even deserve to be called a doctor, that title is only deserved and reserved for a human that cares about another humans quality of life. And you don’t even come close!! Prospective patients you have been warned!

Absolutely horrible. Terrible bedside manner and disgusting,” I know everything,” attitude. “Dr” Choo is very jaded. He assumes everyone is in it for drugs. Disgusting human being and an incompetent,”doctor.”

I have been a chronic pain patient for over 10 years. I was in the Tennova Pain Center for many years on high levels of opiates and procedures that didn’t help. I came to Pain Consultants when the state closed Tennova and I have NOTHING but praise for these doctors and this pain center. Dr Browder has retired now, so I am seeing Dr Choo for consults and procedures. I have been struggling with neck pain for 15 years, and acute neck pain for 2 years. After surgery was unsuccessful in relieving my pain, I received a procedure that has absolutely almost obliterated my pain. For a chronic pain patient, this relief brings tears. Dr Choo is extremely knowledgeable about the opiate crisis, adverse childhood experiences, and procedures that ease pain without the use of heavy opiates. Their center has everything a chronic pain patient needs, from psychological assessment, to physical therapy and surgery center. Best gift I’ve ever received from a doctor, at none.

I do not like PCET. Overall it feels like it is an assembly line operation. Perhaps I still carry a jaded view of the practice from when they were advertising on TV some years back. At that time I was dismissed from their practice for "rudeness" because I wanted more than just to go there monthly for a med RX - I wanted a real strategy for dealing with my spinal pain issues. I was not rude, but I did fill out a patient complaint form because I was upset back then about how it had become a "pill mill." Then recently I was referred back there for procedures and now instead of a pill mill it is like an assembly line - they don't give you any time to rest and recover after procedures, they just can't get you up and dressed and out of their building fast enough!

Horrible! He pushes the "classes" and requires one to come to his office every other week. If you don't, then you are out regarding your meds. Talk about 1984 (the book)! These people at his clinic are all about money. Why must one have a middleman between himself and his primary care physician in Tennessee? As I am a double amputee and have a great deal of phantom pain as well as pressure pain from my prosthetics, I am required by Choo to have to spend money every 2 weeks to go there.

I have been a patient for 4 years. Today I was treated for an unrelated issue. As always very satisfied. His practice has only gotten better. His staff is phenomenal. They are very professional, courteous and kind.

?? per cent pain free from lower back pain after years of a daily regimen of opioids I am free from them thanks to DR.CHOO and his friendly staff my (RFA) treatment works great.I recommend DR.CHOO to anyone looking for real relief from chronic back pain.i had forgotten what life was all about between the chronic pain and the opioids plus the destruction opioids was raging on my body and mind.DR.CHOO and staff are to be highly praised for their work,THANK YOU DR.CHOO ??

I cannot say enough good things about Dr. Choo and his staff. I appreciate that Dr. Choo offers for other treatments other than just medications. I have just finished my second injection with him and my pain relief is unbelievable. When you fight severe pain on a daily basis, it dominates you and your life. I had forgotten how amazing life can be to be almost completely pain free. I encourage others to see Dr. Choo to see if he can help reduce or eliminate your pain.