Bad Neurosurgeon Doctor Jason Haitao Huang – Details

Details – Why I Believe Doctor Jason Haitao Huang Is GROSSLY INCOMPETENT And A Danger To The Community – And Should IMMEDIATELY Have His Medical License Revoked

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DETAILS Of My Medical Fiasco That I Believe Almost KILLED ME TWICE At the GROSSLY INCOMPETENT Hands of Doctor Jason Haitao Huang and From The GROSSLY NEGLIGENT Baylor Scott White Medical Center in Temple Texas 

 

1. I had what was supposed to be a complete and comprehensive double laminectomy on January 14, 2022, for L2-L3 and L3-L4 which was not only totally botched by Doctor Jason Haitao Huang but resulted in me suffering extremely dire consequences: Catching both COVID which,  according to the hospital, also caused me to have “Acute Respiratory Failure” – and additionally what the hospital called “Severe Sepsis” with multiple major organ shut down including my kidneys and significant brain impairment – both of these infections appear to have been received on the operating table according to our son who is a Colonel in the United States Army and a board-certified anesthesiologist and board-certified pain management specialist who lived 4 miles from us in Killeen, Texas.

   I am immensely thankful to our son for his personal intervention at the hospital which greatly improved the DISMAL care that I was receiving from the inattentive and uncaring staff at Baylor Scott White Medical Center.

   I’m also immensely thankful to my loving wife, with her Certified Medical Assistant training and credentials, who took lifesaving care of me throughout this entire ordeal.

   Without the knowledgeable and loving, critical help of both our son and my wife, ALL three of us believe I would not have survived the gross incompetence and gross negligence of both Doctor Jason Haitao Huang and Baylor Scott White Medical Center in Temple Texas.

   My concern is that the general public probably does not have wonderful close-by relatives who are a doctor or CMA who can recognize deplorable, incompetent and grossly negligent medical care and take the proper steps to immediately push back and overcome multiple life-threatening infections like I had that I believe occurred on the Baylor Scott White Medical Center operating table under the responsibility of Doctor Jason Haitao Huang.

   
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2. This complete and comprehensive double laminectomy was attempted and erroneously declared to have been “successfully” performed as outpatient surgery by Doctor Jason Haitao Huang, Chairman of Neurosurgery at Baylor Scott White Medical Center in Temple, Texas. I was sent home on the same day with no follow-up appointments whatsoever scheduled until two full weeks after the outpatient surgery. Baylor Scott White notes state, “1/14/22 L2-L3 and L3-L4 laminectomy, decompression with foraminotomy by Neurosurgery, Doctor Jason Haitao Huang.”
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3. Doctor Jason Haitao Huang’s Op Notes created by him on the day of surgery state: “Once confirmation was achieved that these were the correct levels, an equator to equator decompression was carried out by removing the spinous processes and laminae of L2, L3 and L4 to decompress the underlying thecal sac and nerve roots. Special attention was then turned toward the lateral recesses where extensive medial facetectomies were performed at the L2-L3 and L3-L4 facet joints bilaterally to decompress the lateral recesses and the foramina. Extensive foraminotomy was performed at L2-L3 and L3-L4 bilaterally.”

   The subsequent myelogram done seven months after this botched operation shows that the areas in bold do not appear to have either been done properly or not at all – thereby requiring me to suffer through an additional “redo” operation.
   
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4. Note: I had a spinal cord stimulator implanted in 2017 that prevented me from having an MRI. As a consequence, both surgeries described here were performed based on myelograms. The first myelogram that was used for the January 14, 2022 spinal surgery was done on May 5, 2021. The second myelogram that was used for the September 14, 2022 spinal surgery was done on August 31, 2022. Both myelograms and the imaging disk for both myelograms are available in the Malpractice Litigation Appendix in Dropbox.
   
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5. As it turns out, and was later proven by the August 31, 2022 myelogram and the “redo” double laminectomy surgery, Doctor Jason Haitao Huang’s operation was far from successful since it, notwithstanding Doctor Jason Haitao Huang’s bolded lies above, included NEITHER lateral recess nor foraminal relief during either of his laminectomies – both of which were the most problematic parts of my very painful severe stenosis that required surgery.
   
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6. When the hospital staff was rushing me to get discharged from the January 14 outpatient surgery, my wife heard me on the phone yelling at the staff that, “Something’s not right! Something’s not right! I’ve had this procedure twice before and something is not right!” In spite of this, the Baylor Scott and White Medical Center staff continued to rush me to be discharged, telling me that the pain I was feeling was normal when I knew it was not. When the nurse delivered me to the hospital curbside in a wheelchair, she told my wife that I still had a high fever at the time of discharge but that it was nothing to worry about!
   
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7. I started feeling very poorly within two days of returning home – including a complete inability to think straight and make decisions. At the time I did not know what sepsis was, what its symptoms were – or how deadly it can very quickly become. I also did not know how deadly acute respiratory failure can be. I also did not know that both of these can have dire long-term effects on both quality of life and longevity of life.
   
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8. I’ve had two prior major laminectomies and understood from that experience that they generally have a pain level of 8/10 for a few days. This botched double laminectomy was 20/10. It was the most excruciating, severe pain I’ve ever suffered in my entire life of 74 years – possibly amplified by the very VERY DEADLY SEVERE SEPSIS that I caught on the operating table. I could barely move 2 inches in any direction without triggering massive debilitating pain – making sleep completely impossible. This 20/10 pain lasted more than two weeks – 400 nonstop, non-sleep hours of abnormal, massively intense pain and suffering that is not normal for my laminectomies and my body.
   
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9. In spite of my wife or me trying to call the neurosurgeon multiple times, Doctor Jason Haitao Huang refused to return even a single one of my calls. He would have his subordinate staff eventually call me back and my wife kept telling them that I wanted to talk directly with Doctor Jason Haitao Huang to deal with this over-the-top excruciating, unbearable pain.
   
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10. Doctor Jason Haitao Huang was supposed to do a minimally invasive laminectomy twice during this same operation. Instead, he decided to take out my spinal column all in one piece to make it easier for him during the operation but significantly exacerbated and amplified the subsequent pain I suffered and continue to suffer.
    
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11. There were no follow-up calls by Doctor Jason Haitao Huang after the operation and I had no idea what sepsis was at the time nor how deadly it can be. I was very weak and sickly when I went in to see the doctor on the appointed follow-up date two weeks after the operation. In spite of me having an appointment specifically with Doctor Jason Haitao Huang again, I was forced to deal with his subordinate staff because the doctor was a no-show – even though the after-visit report lies and says he was present. (He also lied on the operating report stating that he used staples to close the wound. Imagine my surprise when I went to have the staples removed and was told they were never there. Minor stuff but I believe this is indicative of his lack of veracity. His lies about what he did surgically that are in bold above are a “smoking gun” based on the August 31 myelogram.)
    
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12. After I described my symptoms to the subordinate staff during this January 28 follow-up meeting, the doctor’s staff IMMEDIATELY AND WITH URGENCY RUSHED ME TO THE ER of Baylor Scott White Medical Center in Temple at which time they found both the Severe Sepsis as they defined it and the COVID infection along with the Acute Respiratory Failure as they defined it. After four days and three nights (January 28, 2022 – January 31, 2022) in the hospital, they pronounced me well enough to be discharged.

    In the 17 days between the surgery and my release from the hospital, I lost more than 40 pounds as a result of this botched surgery and concurrent infections.
    
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13. Even after being hospitalized, Doctor Jason Haitao Huang never once called or visited to check on my status in spite my being a severely ill, highly infected, hospitalized 74-year-old patient who was his responsibility.

    Doctor Jason Haitao Huang finally responded to our numerous phone calls and called me on February 15, 32 days after the surgery and 15 days after my being released from the hospital. I fired Doctor Jason Haitao Huang on the spot for his complete disregard for my well-being, ignoring my pleas for him to call regarding my massive pain and suffering and for being infected by deadly Covid and deadly sepsis all under his watch in his OR – and for his inexcusable lack of responsiveness to one of his surgical patients until 32 days after the surgery in spite of me having to endure horrific, untreated pain caused by his ineptitude.

    (While I understand that we probably cannot litigate the fact that I believe that Huang is an arrogant jerk suffering from excessive hubris and delusions of Godhood, a jury might find this of interest.)
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14. After my first two laminectomies in 2010 and 2014, I was back out hiking the Appalachian Trail within two weeks of the operation and actually needed very little pain medication after the first day or two. With this double laminectomy by Doctor Jason Haitao Huang, I was in 20/10 excruciating pain for 16 days and 16 nights – and 12/10 severe pain for an additional 240 days and 240 nights, where I could not walk more than a couple of minutes without needing desperately to sit down because of the pain rising to 15/10. Even after sitting down, the pain would continue unabated for 30-60 minutes before baseline pain would return to 12/10 where it constantly interfered with sleep.
    
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15. Not only did Doctor Jason Haitao Huang screw up the double laminectomies (see below) his gross incompetence and gross negligence – But he also created massive additional, lasting new pain during the operation due to his complete incompetence.

    

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16. The new, primary excruciating pain that I was having when I walked, sat or slept is in the area of my right hip. This massive, 12/10 intense pain did not exist prior to Huang’s surgery and significantly interfered with every day’s activity for the 240 days and interfered with my 240 nightly attempts to sleep the last for those 240 nights.
    
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17. Another new area of pain caused by Doctor Jason Haitao Huang’s surgery is my coccyx all the way up to about 6 inches above the end of the coccyx. This pain is especially aggravated by sitting at my desk for prolonged periods of time. My work requires me to be at my desk in front of the computers 8-10 hours a day. It is especially painful in that coccyx area virtually every time I stand up. To this day, I have had to endure this pain created by his surgery.
    
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18. After the botched operation by Huang, I had three epidural steroid nerve root procedures performed by my pain management doctor, Genaro J. Gutierrez, MD, DABA, DABPM. I had been a patient of Doctor Gutierrez for three years. The intent of all three nerve root injections was to mitigate the new pains caused by Huang’s incompetence. Unfortunately, none of the injections provided any lasting relief whatsoever.
    
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19. After living in Killeen Texas for exactly 3 years, on July 19, 2022 my wife and I moved back to the Gatlinburg Tennessee area where we had previously owned a home for eight years. (Assuming this litigation goes to trial, and that we will have a Texas jury, it may be helpful to mention that I lived in Texas for a total of 33 years – a third of a century – almost enough for me to be considered a real Texan!)
    
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20. On August 16, 2022, I met with neurosurgeon Doctor Joshua Miller in Knoxville Tennessee. Doctor Miller performed my very first, highly successful laminectomy on October 25, 2010. As I mentioned, I was back out hiking the Appalachian Trail within two weeks of the operation and actually needed very little pain medication after the first day or two.
    
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21. Doctor Miller ordered a new myelogram which was performed on August 31, 2022. I met again with Doctor Miller on September 6. He stated that the myelogram clearly showed what had been unambiguously stated in the radiology report: the laminectomy performed by Huang on January 14 was grossly incomplete and had not relieved the pressure on my spinal cord! I believe this myelogram is clear-cut “smoking gun” evidence of Huang’s malpractice.
    
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22. Doctor Miller highly recommended that a “redo of the double laminectomy” be performed ASAP. This “redo” was performed on September 14, 2022 – exactly 8 months to the day after the botched double laminectomy was performed by Huang. This time I was not infected with Covid or Sepsis. This time there was no excruciating 20/10 pain lasting over two weeks – only the typical 8/10 surgical pain for a few days.
    
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23. As of October 17, 2022, the “redo” operation was a significant success. However, the two new pains caused by Huang’s ineptitude and malpractice continue to be an hourly reminder of Huang’s botched surgery! Although Doctor Miller’s September 14 surgery greatly reduced the amplitude of those two new pains, the ongoing pain and suffering are still strong enough to interfere with sleep and getting back to work after 20 months.
    
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24. As of September 24, 2023, I still have debilitating ongoing lumbar pain and significant S1, coccyx, pain. These pains are still severe in spite of taking four 50 mg tramadol tablets per day. I’m able to force myself to walk with this pain but am limited to a maximum of about 1 mile before the pain is so severe that I have to sit down.
    

Believing that Doctor Jason Haitao Huang was a competent neurosurgeon has, in my opinion, turned out to be one of the worst mistakes I’ve made in my 75-year-old life.

That’s My Story and I’m Definitely Sticking to It

There are usually two sides to every story. Hopefully, you have now read my side of the story. If it’s the truth that unfolded the way I described, what would be your opinion?

If you’re considering using Doctor Jason Huang or Baylor Scott and White Medical Center Temple Texas, I strongly recommend that you ABSOLUTELY do your own research and come to your own conclusions as to whether it would be right and wise for you to use the services of these medical providers – for either yourself – or your loved ones. 

As a matter of fact, if you are considering using his services, I strongly recommend that you get “a second opinion” by calling Doctor Jason Haitao Huang at his office and ask for him to personally explain his defense and opinion against each of my above accusations. His public office phone number is (512) 509-0200. His public website is https://www.bswhealth.com/physician/jason-huang. Likewise, I recommend that you contact Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in Temple Texas and get their opinion regarding my accusations of their gross incompetence and gross negligence in not providing a safe operating room and hospital room environment. Their general public phone number is (254) 724-2111. Their website is https://www.bswhealth.com/locations/temple-hospital

Please feel free to share their responses to you in the comments!

Choose wisely. Your life could very well depend upon it.

Have You Also Been Subjected to Pain and Suffering by Doctor Jason Haitao Huang?

Potential Class-Action Lawsuit 

Based on my botched January 2022 operation, my very strong intuition is that Doctor Jason Huang has botched many other surgeries over the past few years and that there may be a basis for a potential class-action lawsuit.

Note To Prospective Attorneys: I have no interest in being a party to any class-action lawsuit myself – but by representing me in my case, the knowledge you gain may give you the basis for pursuing him on behalf of other victims.

One of my goals is to have the medical license of Doctor Jason Haitao Huang revoked by the Texas Medical Board for malpractice, incompetence and pain and suffering. My goal is that he can no longer do harm to others who believe his credentials and the competency propaganda touted by Baylor Scott & White on their website:

Doctor Jason Haitao Huang is a Chinese-born American neurosurgeon and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Temple. He received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Huang is known for his clinical and research work in nervous system injury and repair, including traumatic brain injury, spinal trauma and peripheral nerve injuries. He also is the Director of the Neuroscience Institute and holds the Plummer Endowed Chair in Neuroscience. Dr. Huang is a provider practicing as a member of the Baylor Scott & White NeuroHealth Institute.

In My Very Personal Opinion, I Believe Baylor Scott & White Left Out That Doctor Jason Haitao Huang Is A Totally Incompetent And BAD NEUROSURGEON!

If you have had similar, bad experiences with this BAD neurosurgeon, please use the contact form so that you can share the story with me – Or leave a comment below for the world to see once I’ve approved it to make sure it’s not spam!

Even if you had a very severely botched operation by some other neurosurgeon, I invite you to leave your story in the comments below.

The Patient