Leone, William H, Md - Pain Management Group

10/03/08

I had an excellent experience

by inpain16yrs at Citysearch

I went to Dr. Leone as a referral from my regular pain management Dr. I met with Dr. Leone and had a thorough exam and am planning to have the stimulator trial soon (November 2008). He was extremely professional and attentive to my questions. He answered my questions with straight answers not a hem haw beat around the bushes type person. Agreed with my current regimen of meds.

Pros: Attentive,straight forward.

Cons: Very busy office,long wait,no pain management group will prescribe Soma.Had to quit taking Soma cold turkey after 14 yrs of taking it. Haven't found any muscle relaxer that will actually work for me. Have tried them all and maxed out on them and had others added to them to try to get relief.

• Pros: Parking, attentive,straightforward
• Cons: busy office,long wait,

01/14/08

Medical Care fFrom The Pain Mgmt. Group

by brucesanford at Citysearch

I first met Dr. Leone in 1995 at the Nashville V.A. Med. Ctr. pain clinic. At that time I had a bulging disc between L-5 & S-1. I received a series of Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injections which gave me 95% relief. As i got older my spine worsened. He has personally performed several procedures in the last 13 years that have honestly given me my life back. I play golf regularly, bowl, have completed Nursing School and live a normal life. I was rolling out of bed to my knees and then standing up before I met Dr. Leone. My wife is also a patient of his. In 2002 she had back trouble and was off work for two weeks. I took her to see Dr. Leone and he treated her for arthiritis of the spinal canal. She received a series of Lumbar Injections and returned to work in a week. She went to see him three years later when she started having some back pain and received another series of Lumbar injections. Since then she has been pain free. I myself have been pain free. I now take my father-in-law to Dr.Leone and he has had injections at another pain clinic in Nashville with no improvement. When I brought him to Dr. Leone, he and his staff went after what was causing him pain. He has had care on his right side of his back and is pain free and now he is beginning care on his left side. He is 76 years old and says he will go to no one except Dr. Leone for his back pain.

Dr. William Leone is a wonderful, caring man who cares about the general well being of all poeple that come to see him. My family and I refer alot of people to the Pain Mgmt. Group who report having good results.

Thank You Bill

Bruce

12/04/07

In my opinion, Dr, Leone is very unprofessional. He tells you what to do, doesn't include the patient in their own decisions.

by allamanj at Citysearch

I saw this pain clinic director at my personal care physician's recommendation after moving to Nashville from Iowa. An LPN performed the entire exam. He did not examine me at all. I had all of my medical records with me and all my bottles of pills. She took the information to him and shortly afterwards he entered the room, introduced himself and told me that my current treatment was wrong because the medication I was on was ineffective. (I've been taking medication for 4 years for relief of severe chronic pain and it's the only thing that has helped substantially). He didn't give me a chance to explain this. He stated that certain medications lose their effectiveness, but this was not the case for me. I take 30 mg/day and have been for 4 years with the same effectiveness. Then he said he had a procedure that was a spinal stimulator. It is an invasive procedure that I've had the option of taking before, but upon doing research, only about 50% of people that have had the procedure get about 50% pain relief. I don't believe in fixing something that isn't broken. When I told him that I was not interested, he offered no more information, did not try to explain it to me at all. He merely looked away and quickly walked out of the room muttering "iI can't have you as a patient".

Such behavior I've never seen in my 48 years, and I've seen 30+ doctors in that time.

In summation, he performed no exam, read very little if any of my medical history I provided him, asked no questions about the effectiveness of my current treatment, gave me no information on the particular procedure he had in mind and was very rude and

unprofessional in his behavior. I would not recommend this guy to anyone in pain since he didn't include my in my treatment in any way. My opinions and thoughts did not matter to this guy.

• Pros: Parking
• Cons: waiting time, LPN performed the exam, Dr, spent 20 seconds conferring with me