We arrived in the Villages last November and my husband was having extreme back and leg pain. It was truly a nightmare trying to get an appointment with any kind of specialist - neurologist or neurosurgeon or pain clinic. Specialists want previous medical records and they are booked out quite a ways. We NEVER want to go through our experiences again. Even had to go to ER at Villages Hospital and although it is under new management/ownership now, I don’t want to return there because our experience was so bad. In the end, I accepted an orthopedic appointment and requested a hip xray be done- the problem was AVN hip with total collapse of his femoral head. We were told surgery would be at least a month out! I managed to get him into Mayo Clinic and they saw him within a couple days and he had total hip surgery a couple days after that!!!!!! My advise- GO TO MAYO! It took nearly 2 months of excruciating pain and frustration trying to get any md to care for him. Wish we would have started at the Mayo
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