Michael R Van Allen Md

Dr. Van Allen did my surgery when others said nothing could be done. I now live with half the pain I had. I am so very thankful he would see me, and do surgery to fix what he found! Most surgeons are not Mr/Ms. Personality but I don't need much personality I need them to be great at Surgery!

I canceled tomorrow's surgery for trigger finger today when I discovered accidentally that I would be given general anesthesia for a 10 minute procedure that I have had twice before on different fingers, with local anesthesia. No consideration was given or even asked for about my previous problems with my blood pressure after general anesthesia. I was not contacted by the surgical center until today concerning my medications or prep for the surgery. When they told me to stop taking aspirin and fish oil because they promote bleeding, I reminded them that the surgery was tomorrow. I called Dr. Van Allen's office and was told that he only does surgery under general anesthesia. I have called off the surgery and found another doctor who considers individual differences in patients before he operates. I will not be seeing Dr. Van Allen again.