Dr. John Charles Franco, MD

Dr. Franco is an awesome MD!!! I have had knee surgery and shoulder surgery done by Dr. Franco. I had gone to other MD's for my knee and they wanted to do very invasive surgery, including a total knee replacement. Fortunately, I found Dr. Franco and he fixed my knee with an outpatient procedure and I was ambulating well and without pain in a short time. I am still recovering from my shoulder surgery, but doing well. He is very caring and compassionate about his job!

Dr Franco performed a hip bone resurfacing surgery on my hip over a year ago and the end result has been very disappointing. Dr Franco convinced me that the pain in my lower back and hip was a result of an abnormality in my hip bone. He recommended shaving the bone and then repairing the soft tissue. He sold this surgery as a solution to the pain and as a way to save or delay a full hip replacement. He also sold it as a way to stay active run, bike etc. Long story short after the surgery he downplayed the amount of physical activity I would be able to do. It appears he overstated the track record he had with physically active patients. He deemed the surgery a success and didn't even take an xray or follow up scan. Over a year later the pain is much worse and my activity level is very limited. I feel he overstated the benefits of the surgery an does not have a system for tracking short/medium/long term success. I understand I could be experiencing this amount of pain without… having had the surgery but a little over a year later there was no benefit to having had the surgery. I WOULD ONLY RECOMMEND THIS SURGERY AS A LAST RESORT, if you are still fairly active DO NOT HAVE THE SURGERY UNTIL YOU ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO DO THE THINGS YOU ENJOY. I feel the surgery shortened my window of being active but I have no way of proving it. At the very least it did not lengthen my window of activity and was expensive. I feel he is overstating and diagnosing the need for the surgery. Is he building a revenue stream or a practice with the patients needs at the forefront?

Dr. Franco was able to diagnose my hip pain when no other doctor could. Better yet--he fixed the problem! He also remedied my husband's knee problems, after 4 previous surgeries failed to help. I recommend Dr. Franco hands down and as often as I can.

I was really scared about the injury to my shoulders. Dr Franco put me at ease. The surgery was a success and I have full use of my shoulder and arm.