Mark Hiles

Review of James A Haley VA

Don't go to the VA if you're in pain!!! The tampa ...

Don't go to the VA if you're in pain!!! The tampa va has the worst pain management doctors of any place I've ever been. They are more concerned with how they look than properly caring for pain patients. I was lied to many times by these so called pain doctors and once with both my wife and daughter present! Another doctor called dr. Drake back regarding an appt. she said I had missed and she lied to him too saying she was looking in the wrong patient record! Other doctors belittled me saying everyone gets pain from old age! All to make themselves look good by getting patients off pain meds whether it was warranted or not! I've been a pain sufferer since I spent 3 months in a military hospital in traction in 1990! I have spinal damage in my neck and low back, and there super spinal surgeon said pain wasn't a reason to do spinal surgery and said to go back to my pain doctor! They wanted to take me off my pain medications without any plan of care at all, just to make themselves look good! If any of them are trained in pain management, I'd be dumbfounded, because looking good on paper is what they are about. Look we got 100% of our pain patients off pain medicines. The fact that some are in jail seeking help from the wrong sources, or that some commited suicide isn't their concern, as long as they can boast about their success at separating their patients from the pain medicines that they needed! That's the tampa VA's philosophy concerning pain patients! Luckily, there are real doctors in the military and local community that are real pain doctors that care about their pain patients well being or I'd have died 8 years ago!