07 Aug Frank D.
If anyone out there is in need of spinal surgery, I absolutely recommend Dr. Marc Levine at RWJ Barnabas in Hamilton. The intense nerve pain that I had been dealing with since February was because the disc had basically completely deteriorated away. There was about a millimeter of space between the C7 and T1 causing compression of the nerve.
Within moments of waking up after the surgery I could already tell the surgery was a success. I spent the last month in a neck brace, taking it really easy and by week three I could tell I was going to make a full recovery.
On top of being a great surgeon, he is also a great person. Six days before the surgery date, my insurance company got back with only a partial approval. Dr. Levine, realizing the surgery date couldn’t be pushed back, and there was no time to go back-and-forth with the insurance company, decided he would just not bill me for that portion!