Anil Kumar, MD at 3 Woodland Road in Stoneham, Massachusetts

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  October 11th was my first and last visit at the Advanced Pain Management clinic in Stoneham. I saw Dr. Kumar and he was extremely insensitive and rude during our visit. A lot happened during our visit but I’d like to go over what bothered me the most. I have Rheumatoid arthritis and Fibromyalgia along with mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, OCD and have struggled with eating disorders (anorexia & bulimia) for 10 years now. He was asking about my mental illnesses and when I had mentioned that I have OCD, he asked me why I thought that I have OCD so I replied that I was diagnosed with it and he was asking me who diagnosed it and asked for examples so I gave them. One of those examples was that I have obsessive thoughts about my appearance and self. He told me that I should cut back on one of my medications (Gabapentin) that’s really helping me because my weight is on the “heavy side” and the medication is “making me FAT”. He put a lot of emphasis on that one word. There are ways to tell someone that you would like them to lose weight in a nice way and when someone has an eating disorder, it’s a more delicate situation. That information is in my records and he can see it. I told him that most days are quite difficult for me and I asked him if there are any pain medications besides narcotics that could help me. Also, let me add that Gabapentin does not cause weight gain! He wanted to prescribe me Tramadol and another medication, Provigil that I hadn’t heard of. The Provigil medication was for daytime sleepiness and I told him that I don’t have that but apparently because I’m a smoker, I do (That’s what he told me). I told him I didn’t think I needed that nor did I want a prescription for it. I hate medication which I expressed to him and no one should take unnecessary medications. I mentioned that I had gotten several cortisone shots in the past year or so for my hip and he wanted me to make an appointment to get a cortisone shot and I told him that it wasn’t bothering me right now so I didn’t see the need for it and he told me I should do it anyway. He wanted me to quit smoking asap and asked what my plan is to quit. I told him that I would need to gradually cut back before quitting and he told me that wouldn’t matter and it would do nothing for me. He wanted me to quit then and there basically and told me that I’m doing nothing about it after I told him that I already have been cutting back. After he tried to phone one of his staff members so they could write my prescription and couldn’t get them after 3 times, he told me to wait and then went to the receptionist area and started verbally abusing his staff members. He was asking why no one answered the phone and exaggerated that he called 10 times, asked where one of his staff were and when no one knew, said “You all are the worst team ever” among other things. If he were my boss, I would have walked out. I wanted to walk out of that room and I should have. I have PTSD from childhood trauma and was already upset as it was but I was trying to keep it together as he was saying horrible things to his staff. He came back in, and then told me that I “need to smile more”. I looked at him and said that I have depression. Then I told him about my eating disorders and how what he said about my weight hurt me because I struggle every day with trying not to starve myself, to exercise more, etc and it’s hard when you’re both in chronic pain and have depression. To that, he replied that I can “sit, cry about it and feel sorry for myself” or I can “go exercise and lose weight”. After I just explained how the pain makes it difficult. More happened but I feel that these are the most important highlights. NO ONE deserves this kind of treatment from a Doctor. I called back later and cancelled the 2 week appointment for a cortisone shot that I was pressured into making and said I won’t be filling the prescription that was given to me and that I won’t be returning, either.
  October 11, 2017

  by Kathy Fischer

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