Dr. Steven E Chamberlain, MD

You will be missed! I first went to see Dr. Bolton for an evaluation in 1986. He said he was too old to operate anymore but set me up with a young Dr. Chamberlain. He completedd 2 shoulder surgeries on me back in 1986. He gave me years of relief. I now have arthritis in my shoulder but almost 33 years is pretty awesome. Thanks Doc. I think of you often. You will be missed. Congratulations on your retirement!

What took you so long, Doc? You should have quit years ago! After a year of bad advice, I changed doctors and will be having rotator cuff and bicep surgery. Dr. Chamberlain said I had a “muscular imbalance”, and all I had to do was “work my rotator cuff muscles to balance out”. I worked through the pain and did what he said. It got worse. Much worse. I got a referral to see a different doctor. After an X-ray and an MRI, the results are three torn rotator cuff tendons and a torn bicep tendon. All requiring surgery. Thanks for wasting my time, advising me to continue working the injured joint, and taking my money. I heard you finally quit practicing... Not soon enough though!

Yes, waiting for him can be lengthy. That is due to the time he spends with his patients. I never leave his office with questions. He explains everything thoroughly. I've never found him to be rude and/or condescending, as other comments have suggested. I have been seeing Dr. Chamberlain for a number of years. Now the office staff could be friendlier. I find them neutral - not nice nor rude. Although they due borderline the rudeness.

He has kept me walking for 30 + years. He tells it like it is but he has a great sense of humor.

I have visited Dr. Chaimberlain several times for various injuries and have always found him to be friendly, professional and a great source of easy to understand diagnosis and treatment.

This doctor is rude, arrogant, condescending and insensitive. His only "botton line" for knees is knee replacement. I explained the incident that caused my knee pain and after reviewing the x-ray, his diagnosis was osteoarthritis in both knees. It was my right knee that took a bad fall and he didn't even consider a thought that I might have damaged the meniscus, or torn a ligament - or, if he did, he didn't share it with me. I went ahead and "signed up" for the 3 Euflexa injections and Chamberlain said it take up to six weeks to really do it's job. It's been almost 3 months and my right knee, after about 4 weeks seemed to improve, but has slowly gone back to the pain that I initially had before the injections. This man has a personality disorder - I would not go back to him. His rudeness and arrogance are not worth the stress when you are already in pain and need help. He, in my opinion, is emotionally and verbally abusive.

has horrible bedside manners and seems to belittle my wife

I was a bodybuilder for 8 years. I was in a car accident with several injuries. When I saw Chamberlain - he flipped my xray up - looked at it for 1/2 a second - and flipped it down. Then he said, " nothing I can do for you and there is not a Dr. around who can. You will be handicap for the rest of your life and we won't know how bad for a few years." I asked him a few more questions and he then again said, " Let me put it this way - you will never do anything you are use to doing again". And he sent me on my way. I located a Dr. in the bay area - he was able to fix my injuries. I called Chamberlain to tell him that there is someone out there that can fix my type of injuries and asked if he wanted the name just in case someone else came in that he could fix. He said, NO I DON'T CARE... HE IS A CRAPPY DR. DON'T GO TO HIM. I WOULDN'T EVEN GIVE HIM A STAR BUT THE SYSTEM WANTS AT LEAST ONE. HE SHOULD HAVE HIS LIC. TAKEN AWAY.

I suffered for over a year, had unnecessary surgery, and almost lost my leg because this guy is so full of himself it took 2 other doctors to convince him my knee replacement was infected.

Don't even think of seeing this doctor.He did a surgery on me that went bad. Verbally abused me when I complained about it and sexually harassed me in his office.It appeared to me that he is mentally and physically impaired or has a substance abuse problem or both. Creepy!!!