Dr. Erin Fritz Lawson, MD

Dr. Lawson continues to help find a solution for my back pain. My complex issues have no surgical solution, and she is helping me find a responsible way to manage my pain.

I tried for a year to convince doctors there was still something wrong with me after a herniated disc surgery. None believed me & treated me like a drug seeker. I took her injection that she does but they didn't help my back. They helped with pinch nerves I was getting in my elbows but not my back. It took me having bad muscle spasms in my leg in front of her for her to believe. All she said was there is something wrong there that shouldn't be happening. Well duh! She finally sent me for a MRI that showed my herniated disc that I had surgery on had ruptured. When I told her this all they had to say was sorry & do you need a prescription for pain meds. I just picked up 1 from my neurosurgeon, so if I was a drug seeker I would have said sure. I love proving doctors wrong but Im getting tired of it. By the way I still have pain & my family Dr admits I have chronic pain but get nothing for it. So I stay depressed all the time.

Erin should not be a doctor. She has no bed side manner and treated me like I was a drug seeker when I have legit problems with X-rays to prove it. She had no interest in hearing what happened to me she automatically put me in as a doctor shopper because of my past er visits that were all emergencies.

She was very personable. She was honest about my back and neck being something that will always have issues. But she was optimistic about a treatment program to help get me back to the best condition possible and that will help me manage my pain. She actually outlined the plan I already had in my head! A few well placed injections, followed by PT so I can get my back & neck healthy. Also the PT will teach me how to take care of my back in the future.

Dr Lawson is running a real pain clinic, with real recommendations for treatments supported by evidence. If you are just wanting a prescription for opioids then yes you should stay away and yes you'll probably leave angry. If you are interested in working to improve your pain and raise your functionality then she's great.

Total and complete waste of time and money. I left stunned. I suffer excruciating peripheral neuropathy. I am barely hanging on. She recommended a vitamin. I kid you not. Ridiculous that this person even practices medicine. Stay away. She's useless. No recommendations, no insight, no empathy, no nothing. I received exactly ZERO medical care from this woman. And yes, I must agree, she's seems like a narcissist. The nurse listened and communicated much better, but then the nurse was not treating me. She showed ZERO interest in what she was doing. Had nothing to say really. Disinterested. Horrible experience. I'm asking for a referral to someone else, as I got no treatment. I must stress again, this was a total waste of my time and my money.

Dr. Lawson is a narcissistic doctor whose personal beliefs outweigh that of the patient. She refused to give me a medication that had been proven effective in treating my pain because "she didn't like it", instead, she prescribed a medication that gave me severe migraine headaches which added to the pain I was experiencing. She has no time to listen to the patients feelings, did not believe I was in pain at all, has no compassion, and when she performed a procedure, she had another doctor do it who, from what I gathered, was still learning. The procedure hurt beyond words, and she said to the doctor who stuck the needle in my back and I practically jumped off the table, she said: "oh, next time you might want to..."