Washington Center for Pain Management

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Little J

Dr. Vo and the front desk staff to this faciltiy, makes me sick. anyone calls themself doctors these days! if your in your 20s... you are not a doctor....it takes much skill and practice to be a doctor, soemone who listens, and cares for there patients, and does not judge them off bat or try to force thing on them. When i first came to here.. they made me wait 3 weeks for any kind of pain relief, knowing i have a tore maniscus, and messed up patella and may need surgery, that i pulled al muscles and my hips...i have digenerative herniated disks in my lumbar and cervical along with chairi maleformation of the brain. im half way def and had my service dog , and everytime i came in there they gave me rudeness towards me and my dog. i have carpol tunnel in both hands and a lesion tumor that could or could not be cancerous in my femar of my left bad leg. i have diabetic pain, fibermilagia, ortheo and rhemu arthritus, and many other issues... he said because i have so many issues i do not need to be on any kinda of pain med. i told him what i had had in the past and why i took myself off adn that it was my decision i was not kicked from any clinics or etc. i even passed there little councilor test thing with flying colors and yet this guy still looked at me adn refered to me as a addict.. im severely disabled and have alot of issues..a nd did not need this poor treatment from this Dr Vo. horrible man gave me this med and it sent me to the hospital because i got really high off the euphoria.. of the med and went into panic mode like i do with Thc. from the non medical side of marijuanna, i couldnt be place on morphine or vikedean or opana cus im allergic. how ever i had other options still and he said we ran out i told him i had been on dilaudid and odycodene before and he refused. i dont know why these doctos everytime i go want to challange me.. i know my body, i know what will help me get around and do stuff...and participate in life so i dont become sucidial. or wither..so he proceeds to tell me he wont prescribe it cus of my past , i said what past?/ he goes you tryed to kill yourself with pain killers.. i said WHAT???!!! ive neve done a sucidial attempt in my life.. and i said.. i had 1 sucideal attempt 10 years ago and that was by knife not meds... of any sort... and he goes yeah cus you did that im not prescribing to you. mind you this was 10 years ago and i been in counciling and do not have that view on life no more. but even then with no support system. in your early 20s late teens, and have no one homeless.. and etc... and medical issues.. why not seems like a good way to go.. but i found other things... to keep me away from that. so he presisted to yell at me and tell me to get the hell out there clinic.. i said sure i wilil and your ass is going to be sued ofr wasting my time, harassment, judemnet not working as a doctor, but a enabler, giving me meds that hospitalized me knowing i couldnt have them. and male practice. and stormed out. while they were waving there hands and talking abdly. i feel like someo f t hese doctors might be from seattle pain center. cus they were bad too they would put stuff in your pee to make it change so they could get more people in and take you out. i hate pain meds its why it ook myself off but if its what helps me.. its what helps me.. im not looking to get high im looking for pain relife... youll help a druggin but no someone who truely has issues. i guess cus im under 40 that i cant have issues...someone needs to put that place out of business.. or fire that doctor... cus a doctor is a doctor and a rna is not a doctor.. 20 year old ass...all my friends are so mad they weill all be wringing you guys with bad reiviews since they were on the phone listening to your lies Vo....people ike you make people like me sick

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Grey Moon

Utterly horrible place. I, too, was one of the unfortunate people left in the lurch after Seattle Pain Centers closed without warning, and this is the only place that would take me as a Medicare patient. I am permanently disabled with back issues, and under the age of 40. I barely got a word out after meeting the doctor for the first time, he was very curt and condescending. I was ordered to go off some of my psych medication cold turkey before they would even "treat" me. Not allowed to use medical marijuana either--despite holding a card for it and living in a state where its legal. I was also apparently immediately labeled a pill-seeker, as the doctor refused to let me speak to my issues (and background, since it was my very first visit), and instead cut me off and told me I would be going on suboxone therapy. (You know, the drug they put narcotic addicts on.) Only after protest during my second visit with a different individual was I prescribed a different medication--and then I was only given the equivalent of half my normal dose (that I have been on for years), at half the frequency. I am barely able to function at this level, the pain leaves me mostly house-and-bed-bound. Terrible place. They need to get a grip on reality and accept that people at my age do actually exist that need the kind of medication I need for legitimate reasons, and treatment like this is a big reason why people turn to illegal means for relief from chronic pain.

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R Sherman

Avoid going to this clinic if you have an option. I came to Washington Center for Pain Management from Seattle Pain Center after it closed down without notice. I should have done more research. I did read reviews, but thought Id give them the benefit of the doubt. That was a mistake. I am four visits in and have learned of their "clinic policy". Essentially, unless you have cancer, you will not be prescribed over a certain number of pills in a month, although their month is 28 days. So every month I went in, they cut my meds down, due to "clinic policy". I would understand if I were over-medicated, but I have a laundry list of back issues that had me disabled at 35 yrs old. During my last visit I discovered that there is some key information missing from my file. Information I handed to them, that the Dr. read, on my first visit. It is astonishing. I have not been talked to about any alternative pain treatments such as injections. Just medication. This place is worse than Seattle Pain Center, and that was shut down. Update - I was labeled a pill seeker because I questioned the "One size fits all" clinic policy and because I requested to see a different Dr. within the same clinic.

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Spyderred

I cannot say enough about people at WCPM who spend their working lives tending to others in pain - which can mean on occasion dealing with people who are short-tempered, sad or angry (and then there are those who live such sad lives that they seek temporary release in drugs). And who must work with government policies that make no distinction between those who need pain relief, and those who want life relief, without letting patients even notice the strains that must produce. Ive been driving two hours each way because the good people at WCPM care about their patients well-being despite government pressure and difficult personalities. Recently Dr. Dhesi at the Olympia office proposed a method of cauterizing certain spinal nerves which may give me longer-term pain relief while at the same time permitting me to reduce or (dare I hope) eliminate the need for pain medication. This is a new process with application to a limited type of patient, but trust the people at WCPM to be aware of new developments in their chosen field of specialty. Great people who keep their professionalism (and humanity) at all times.

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