Attn: RE: Florida Doctors

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... Sorry it took me so long to respond to your comment about the

doctors here in Florida. Something was wrong with my Yahoo account and it just

got up and running again today. You were asking about the doctors that I took

to see in Florida. I normally wouldn't bad-mouth doctors on a chat group

like this, but since they all screwed up my kids feet and I now have to travel

to Baltimore and see Dr. Herzenberg because of the lack of good orthopedic

surgeons in this lovely state, I will share their names with you...(and anyone

else who may be reading this!!!) We live in South Florida... so our first doctor

was Theresa Rattey, located in Boynton Beach, who serial casted him for 2 months

when he was little then said that he needed to have the surgery where they

re-align the bones in his feet (forgot the name of it). She even scheduled it

for us. I said " what about the brace? " She told us that his feet weren't getting

corrected with the casts, so she wanted to just

try surgery instead. Obviously that was a red flag and we left her practice.

Then we went to Bret Baynham in Palm Beach Gardens. He was actually a very nice

doctor, got 's feet straightened out with some more casts, did the

tenotomy, casted again and he was in the DBB's. kept on getting out of

them every night and I just knew that his feet weren't corrected. So I decided

to take him to Dr. Romano in Plantation for another opinion. He is the

only one out of the 3 doctors that is actually on Dr. Ponseti's list of trained

doctors. The others just said they used the Ponseti method. Well ,when

turned 2 I took him in for a check-up and Dr. Romano said his feet were

relapsing and would need the ATT surgery when he turns 3. He said to leave

his feet as they are now (turned in) and wait a year to do surgery. That was not

an acceptable answer to me, so I did some research and booked a flight to

Baltimore and saw the AMAZING Dr. Herzenberg. This is

's 4th ortho and finally the only one that is helping his feet. He has

been in casts for 3 weeks, they come off next week. Dr. H said we have avoided

doing any further surgery just by putting casts on for a month. I am just so

happy that we found him and so sorry that I didn't listen to my gut and take him

there sooner. Sorry for the long post, but I just wanted to let anyone else

reading this know to listen to YOUR gut and if you aren't satisfied with your

child's ortho, look elsewhere. It isn't worth wasting treatment time on your

child's precious little feet with a doctor who isn't actually doing the REAL

Ponseti method!!! So , who did you see in Florida?

Tichauer

2/9/04 BLCF (Finally being fixed my a great doctor)

Tichauer

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