Dr. Michael Louis Goodman, MD

Told me he was going in my neck anterior , then after a few days getting out of the fog,realized he went in posterior . He never even mentioned he did 2 laminectomies. He told me,I never asked ?

The very first form (for surgery) he hands you is has to do w/ agreeing to use an arbitrator if the case goes to litigation!!!! RUN, if you still can!!! If you don't complain/have issues, you're an acceptable patient. If your hardware does silly little things like break and you have the audacity to "complain"," well, aren't you just the Ahole patient!!!! No prep, no follow-up, no culpabilty and no talent! This guy is about money, money, MONEY!!!

A miracle Doctor. I have great respect for him.

MY HUSBAND HAD SURGERY 5 years ago done by Dr. Goodman and as of now he is in worse pain than when he went in! My husband saw a Dr. at Andrews and was told that the surgery was the worst mess the Dr had ever seen and that Dr. Goodman should be run out of town. I guess he was right, Dr. Goodman has left town. Wish we would have pursued legal action but we were too worn out!

He is a very experienced surgeon, because HE OPERATES ON EVERY PATIENT. He will move to an area, stay a few years and operate on everyone he sees, rakes in the cash, then move to another place, so he can take advantage of people who do not know him.

I saw Dr. Goodman (funny, his name should NOT imply he's a good man) for excruciating back pain. He immediately said I needed surgery. He falsified documents to my insurance stating that all conservative treatments had been tried and failed, when I'd had NO conservative treatments whatsoever. I'd only had an MRI and CT done by my primary care doctor who saw the problem and referred me to him. He placed a graft sideways through a vertebrae and INTO my spinal canal, then closed me up as if all was good. It was NOT. I haven't seen him since my surgery, as he stood me up for all of my post-op appointments. I had to keep rescheduling since there was always an excuse for why he couldn't see me. On a few occasions, I even heard him in the next room speaking with the nurse telling her which excuse to tell me because he didn't want to see me!!!! He is a coward who wouldn't face up to his mistake. I did 6 months of physical therapy, only to get worse. My physical therapist even attempted to… contact him multiple times to say that there was something wrong and he needed to see me. My legs go numb and go out from under me because of this. The worst is that I have unbearable tailbone pain, which I never had before my surgery. Later, another neurosurgeon explained to me that he is very bad about retracting too far which stretches the nerves to a point they cannot heal, resulting in excruciating tailbone pain, and there is nothing anyone can do to treat it! I finally got a second opinion where the neurosurgeon showed me where the graft was in my spinal canal and actually pinching it. My spinal canal came down, was pinched off around my graft, then went on down. It looked like a line that went down, bent all the way over to one side, then bent back and continued down. I had to have a revision immediately to redo the graft and get it out of my spinal canal. The neurosurgeon told me how sloppy Dr. Good man's work was and that he had a lot of "clean-up" to do once he was in there. I still have horrible, debilitating back pain, and now I cannot find a neurosurgeon who will take my case once they find out he's the one who did my original surgery. As a matter of fact, I was scheduled for surgery, and when I met with the surgeon for him to explain the operation, he told me it was brought to his attention that Dr. Goodman did my first surgery, then said he didn't think surgery would help and refused to do the surgery he had already scheduled. He had seen my scans, my history, everything, and scheduled the surgery, but when he found out who did my first surgery, he then refused to go in after him. RUN as far away from Dr. Goodman as you can! I'm not the only one he has screwed up indefinitely either. Once everything was revealed as to the problem, I began getting bombarded with horror stories about surgeries he's done! Stay away from this man!

Great neurosurgeon

Did unnecessary surgery on me. Broke my back in two places during surgery

he blinded me during back surgery, perhaps because he decided to take on 5 or 6 patients ahead of me eventhough I was required to be there, no medications, no food, at 9:00 am. I wasn't called till after 3:40 pm. When I asked where he was nurse said he was on his 5th surgery. I was scheduled but I came last. Said I was awake when he left, lie. Couldn't wake me or control blood pressure. Apparently he and the anestheologist just left me that way..

Run like the wind! The first thing he turns to is a major surgery I think because it's money in his pocket with no caring for the patient. He talked me into a fusion from C-3 to T-1 to stop excruciating headaches and after the surgery the X-ray showed a bent rod and he wanted to know what I did to bend it. With still no results for my headaches he waited just long enough so he could be paid for a new surgery and not a redo. He told me the chemical he used for the fusion my body rejected so he was going to have to do it again Not thinking because of all the pain I was in and not thinking it didn't matter if the chemical didn't take because the rods and screws were going to keep my spine in place I let him do another one this time he went down another level to T-2 with no relief. He told me I would lose up to 30% range of motion and he would have me playing basketball by X-Mas 6 months. Needless to say I can't play basketball and even had to go on Soc. Sec. Disability and I have less… than 30% range of motion. Since that time I have heard a number of horror stories about what he has done to others also. I also have had Drs. in Gulf Breeze Fl. and Atlanta tell me that I did not require surgery. As a matter of fact I have cured my migraines with a very simple non evasive procedure that I'm sure with his education was very aware of.