Dr. Tyson Richard Trimble, DO

This guy is such a great doctor. He was so compassionate with my wife and I. I had great results with my procedure. So thankful for Dr. Trimble!

I am very pleased with the care I received from Dr. Trimble and his staff. They were very attentive to my needs and understanding of my injury and care.

I visited Dr. Trimble as a referral from my regular doctor for a follow up on two issues the primary of which was about an issue with my left knee. The second of which was a wrist that was hurt during a fall. I have had two arthroscopic surgeries on my left knee over the years both due to tearing of the meniscus cartilage in that knee and I have been told after the second surgery that if anything needed to be done to the knee I was most likely going to be looking at a knee replacement. I had also informed him that steroid shots were no longer effective and that I had also even had a Supartz injection treatment that did nothing either to relieve the pain. In talking to Dr. Trimble after he reviewed the x-rays they took that day of my knee he concurred that there was no need to look at doing another arthroscopic surgery as that would be ineffective. He also said due to my age, 47, he would not even consider doing a knee transplant. I informed him I knew of the risk that I may very well have to end up with a second knee replacement down the road since they have a certain life expectancy but that I was willing to risk that due to the amount of pain I go through on a regular basis. He told me he will still not consider it due to my age. I emphasized just how much pain I was going through and that there were times it hurt so badly I just could not walk on that knee. I mentioned to him that I just couldn't imagine going another 8 to 10 years with this level of pain much less when it got worse as I know it will over time, it certainly isn't going to get any better. His reply to me was to shrug his shoulders. Basically it felt to me like he was saying "man up, stop whining and deal with it". I understand that he is the professional in this field, but for him to say he is not going to consider the surgery at all due to my age and ignore the quality of life issues I am having here and now with the pain, to me that is worse than just a bad bed side manner. When a doctor doesn't even seem to want to talk to you at all about an issue that affects your quality of life so dramatically, to me that just says he doesn't care. Perhaps he is the type of doctor that just has a horrible bed side manner but I have to question if I would have had something other than state medical insurance and instead had the ability to pay directly or an A+ insurance coverage, would the answer of been the same? I ask that question because of just how he acted, almost like it was a bother to even be talking to me about this issue. Is this what our healthcare industry has become? In regards to my wrist, I was a month and a half into it hurting badly from a fall. He refused to take an MRI and was looking at old x-rays that were taken at the time of the issue and did not even offer to take new x-rays to see if anything had changed since the first set of x-rays. He wanted to give it another couple of weeks, finally he offered a steroid shot in the wrist which I went ahead a took. It still hurts a tad, but nothing like it did before. I figure if it is going to come down to getting another steroid shot I don't need to go to him to get that, I can get it from my regular doctor. There is no way I can or would recommend this doctor. When a doctor refuses to consider even for a moment the pain that his or her patient is going through and instead says that they would never do a particular surgery until you reach a certain age, that just doesn't set right with me. And his whole attitude while speaking to him was off putting to say the least, all the time his nurse was standing next to him with her arms crossed, no smile but a very big scowl. None of this leads me to believe I am important to them, my health is not important to them, my money (granted it is low end medical insurance) is not important to them. Why would I even think about going back? I will be seeking a second opinion in the near future and I just hope that I don't find out that there is something that could have been done, arthroscopically all the way to replacement and that it could have been done sooner to relieve my pain but was not due to his detachment from his patient.