Dr. Matthew Mark Campbell, MD

My wife came into the hospital with bacterial endocarditis. Her mitral valve was gone, and she was completely septic. 80% of her blood was not flowing, and she was experiencing a cytokine storm causing multi system organ failure, she was literally circling the drain. Dr Campbell installed an Impella device to temporarily restore blow flow so they could treat her with antibiotics. After 2 days Dr. Campbell told me it was the best time to try and perform the surgery to repair my wife's valve and save her life. He told me up front she had a 20-40% chance of survival. But we figured it was time to go for broke. He repaired her heart, and she made the a full recovery, no complications, no damage to other organs due to the cytokine storm, it was a miracle best case scenario. This man is the best surgeon, and I will forever be grateful to him and Holmes Regional.

Dr. (using the term loosely) Campbell operated on my mother, presenting the surgery as a zero recovery surgery, in other words, piece of cake, walk in the park, no worries, be happy. Well, evidently we misinterpreted his zero recovery comment because zero recovery meant NO RECOVERY! Can't even begin to express my anger when his PA enlightened me post surgery that this surgery was experimental. WHAT????!!!! Obviously we weren't aware of that or we would never had agreed to the surgery. The surgery was performed, not to save my mother's life, but to increase her quality of life. It took several months for the aftereffects of Dr. Campbell's surgery to take my mother's life, but take it, it did. To add additional pain to our hearts, Dr. Campbell's office called four months after my mother passed to schedule her follow up visit. Sure, grab a spade and let's dig her up.