I came in with shooting pain down my arm and stiffness in neck and shoulder which I had been experiencing for over a year and was getting much worse. Dr. Oricolli was confrontational, condescending, malevolent, and verbally attacked and belittled me. He made me cry, made me think I was crazy, and then sent me home with a prescription for massage therapy, telling me that my symptoms ""made no sense"". It could have been an episode of House. He did everything except call me an idiot. My general physician then sent me for an MRI and found a herniated cervical disk. The neurosurgeon I subsequently saw told me all of my symptoms WERE consistent with a herniated disk. If Dr. Oricoli is a spinal specialist as claimed, he should have immediately suspected such a problem. I was told that an untreated herniated cervical disk could possibly cause me to lose the use of that arm. Don't go to this man. He either sucks as a doctor or allows his personal problems to cloud his judgment. I suffered needlessly for another month because of this man and if I hadn't been persistent at getting help, could have lost the use of my arm.
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