William John Orrom

A Patient

Dr. Orrom's lack of availability and / or interpersonal skills meant the one consult i had with him was short, rushed and uninformative. He proposed a "quick" procedure that was supposed to have a down time of a week. He showed up for the procedure seeming both "rushed" and unprepared to the point where the initial marking of the surgical region hadn't even been done and he did it with a sharpie marker while I was in the bed waiting to be taken into the ORT. The "week and you'll be back at work" procedure took 5 days just to recover enough to be discharged and sent home. It shortly after resulted in an assess and a month of bouncing between hospitals before another surgeon eventually was able to cauterize the area and resolve things at least in the short term. No explanation was offered as to what had caused the assess. It took weeks to reach him for a followup consult over the phone, at which point it was explained that the first surgery was unsuccessful. None of the variety of available options were offered or discussed, just a recommendation to do the surgery that was the quickest and more convenient for him. It was no problem to convince me to go along with it as he knew I was already sitting in a hospital being fed opiates and did not possess adequate reasoning skills. The second surgery was a success in terms of it allowed him to move along to whatever else he had to do that day. I got to enjoy four months recovering and unable to work, one of which was spent stuck in a room at the Vic General crammed in a room with three other guys, one of whom was a vagrant that they forgot to tell to go home. After three days he was eventually told to leave after he without any provocation punched me in the head while I was on my way to the bathroom. During that month of recovery I only saw Dr. Orrom once very briefly and saw his student apprentice a couple times. No bedside manner at all. Having read all these people speaking of him in glowing terms suggests to me that either they are mainly lonely seniors who were so starved for any human interaction that they loved any attention or that the majority were written by patients still heavily dosed on narcotics. Perhaps he only turns on the charm for the over 65 patients. The end result of his work has left me disfigured and severely disabled. n terms of the impact it has had on my life, it has effectively ruined every part of it. My ability to work, my relationship, being able to spend time with friends and loved ones: all completely decimated and all because he couldnt be bothered to even discuss the variety of other options I had which would have resulted in me being abke to live lead a somewhat regular life. All the surgeons working in this area of practice should have to spend a month with a colostomy bag before they are allowed to receive a degree, so that they can effectively appreciate the horror they are gladly inflicting on poor unsuspecting members of the public. He ruined my life and lost me everything that mattered to me. I am 40 and a disfigured, disabled wreck. His receptionist Julie seemed nice but in hindsight I realize her main role was to facilitate coaxing the patients into a false sense of care or attention.

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