Richard Grant Curless, MD

I was treated by this man after my parents took me to him as a small child. I had two seizures but no more after another neurologist put me on a medication but my parents did not like the side effects of this drug. Curless put me on a new experimental drug that caused me to have explosive new seizures and refused to let my parents take me off this new drug. Later there were papers published that other young children suffered the same fate although their neurologists took them off that drug immediately so the effects were not as bad as what I suffered. I ended up in status epilepticus and almost died after a seizure that lasted several hours. I was left with permanent brain damage and severe epilepsy which I still have. After that first prolonged seizure, I got a new neurologist who immediately took me off that drug but the damage was done and I was doomed to lifelong severe seizures. Other young children also had this reaction to this new drug which has been documented in several papers. Stay away from this man. He does not care about his patients and does not listen to the parents.