I don't believe Dr. Liberty ever really addressed the issues with my feet in a way that gave him complete understanding about the pain I was in and the problems I was having. He seemed to jump to a specific conclusion, and I let him go there believing that he had the understanding and experience to know what was necessary to correct my issue. He suggested that I get a second opinion, which I did, but then I felt that it bothered him that I actually did this. The second provider sent me for an MRI, I provided those results to Dr. Liberty, who called me upon receipt of that information and basically told me that he couldn't see anything from the MRI and there was no report with it. Normally I would have expected an MRI to go somewhere other than the doctor to be read and determinations made as to if the doctor was on the right track with his  surgical or treatment process , but I don't think that happened either. The (left) foot that doctor liberty operated on is worse than it ever was and I have trouble now spending even an 8-hour work day on my feet. And, at our parting he didn't seem to believe that he had missed, or done anything that could be related to the increase or ongoing pain. He told me that an MRI would not have shown a neuroma anyway, but my contention is that it may have shown something else that may have redirected his efforts in my treatment. Now I am stuck with a foot that gives me extreme difficulty to walk on and extreme pain throughout the day. I also can't step down on it barefooted at all. I will not be returning to Dr. Liberty for surgery on the other (right) foot, until such time that I can figure out what is wrong with the first (left) foot and try to figure out who's going to be responsible for the financial issues that this has created.  It was very difficult to have a conversation with Dr. Liberty that questioned anything that he did, might have did, or otherwise missed without him being very defensive.  I felt like I should not even be questioning his treatment and he came up with other issues that could be creating my pain.  Never once, pre-operatively, did he offer any kind of medication that may provide relief. Maybe there isn't any? Post operatively, when I ask for a refill of the pain medication via the Live Well app that he had prescribed, I never even got a response, yes, no or maybe.  I was just ignored.  His biggest issue from the very first meeting seem to be that I should not be wearing work boots to work every day. And he really didn't like the fact that they were" western style" work boots and kept calling them cowboy boots. It is not been very often that I have had issues with health care provided by Aurora, but Dr. Liberty is not someone that I would recommend to anyone for any kind of invasive treatment for their feet.
AHCSL Podiatry