Dr. Paolo Bolognese, MD

Dr. Bolognese is a risk taker. He took a risk on me and saved my life. He gave me my life back, thank you.

Dr. Bolognese performed my posterior fossa decompression in 2012. It was & continues to be the best medical decision I've ever made. He was absolutely wonderful and extremely professional. Neither I nor my family could be more pleased with his & his team's care.

Dr Bolognese and Milhorat saved my life! This was at the Chiari Institute in 2004. If it wasn’t for these doctors, I wouldn’t be here today. My skull had been thin down to the thickness of a potato chip! Because of the Chiari malformation, pressing on things. Previous to the surgery. I also had many direct leaks of spinal fluid his doctors fixed me all up! I will be seeing him again soon to have a revision of the craniocervical fusion. I have the old type rods and now they have newer ones. My quality of life is next to nothing before the surgery is doctors help me get better! I put full trust in Dr. B. I read a lot of negative reviews regarding Dr. B that has never been my experience in the many times I’ve seen him. I brought my two children to him to be diagnosed and neither of them needed surgery. So he does not do surgery on just anyone! Thank you, Dr., be for giving me all my life back!

I believe this is a very evil man. He will convince you you need surgery and create in you a fear, fear if you don’t have the surgery he proposes. He mutilated me and ruined my life. Think twice. He’s not even board certified. Ask him WHY he isn’t board certified. See if you can be satisfied by his answer. Beware. Any surgeon worth his salt is board certified.

How this guy is in practice is beyond me. He is nasty, arrogant and incompetent. If you walk into his office, he is ready to operate no matter what. He’s been sued over 20 times. Settles every one.

He wants to perform surgery on anyone who walks in his office. Once he does one surgery on you, he finds another body part that needs surgery, and so on and so forth.

After having surgery with another neurosurgeon and getting worse I found DrBolognese. He redid the first surgery and fixed all the issues I had. Today I’m doing much better. I can’t say enough about how he has helped me regain my life!!

He is not the surgeon you want to put your life in his hands. He never reattached the muscles to the back of my head. He diagnosed me with EDS and proceeded to do such an aggressive laminechtomy on C1 &c2 that I have no cervical stability at that juncture . Had to have a revision by another surgeon, who told me there wasn't enough bone to attach the rods to my neck at those levels. Permanently disabled. Oh and the plate and screw he put in place of my removed skull was kinking my dura. Refused to see me. Had to go to another surgeon. He also told me at the time he could "cure" me. Only to find out that surgery is not a cure. That I could have lived with but know I live with more problems because of him. I think with him it's a gamble. Either you will give him a 5 star rating or a forced 1 because you can't give a 0. Your life, your choice. I did my job, you have been warned.

Dr. Bolognese has been my neurosurgeon for over 12 years. I am a complex patient with Chiari, Cranial Cervical Instability, EDS, Syringomyelia, Tethered Cord, Scoliosis, etc. My first Chiari decompression from another neurosurgeon didn’t help me because I had other problems associated with Chiari. Dr. Bolognese saved my life by redoing the decompression and doing a fusion for the cranial cervical instability. He redid my cervical fusion hardware in 2016 because my rod broke after 10 years and the new hardware is 1/3 less metal, with so much more flexibility. In 2018, he performed tethered cord release and my symptoms that he said he could fix have disappeared. He has never pushed surgery on me, but left the decision with me based on my symptoms. Once, he did tell me that my symptoms may get to a point of no return and he can’t fix the problems associated with them due to nerve damage. I’ve never been disappointed with Dr. Bolognese. I agree with Dr. Bolognese when he says it’s… 50 percent doctor and 50 percent patient. We all have to do our part, as well, for these treatments to be effective.

I would not even know where to start. This “doctor” severely injured me and is very keen to give cause to operate. Avoid at all costs as he could set you on a trajectory you never need to be on. Less is oftentimes more and please be very very cautious about calling him. I say this to protect others.