#1 Individual Responds
AUTHOR: VeritasForLawyers.com - Stevenson (USA)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, October 13, 2009
POSTED: Tuesday, October 13, 2009
As any intelligent reader of the "Rip-Off Report" # 486654 can determine, the report was filed by a disgruntled former employee.
This employee engaged in what we considered damaging behaviors to our company, and we have several emails from customers documenting this damaging behavior.
As for the personal attacks on Nelson Hendler, MD, with referrences to accusation post on the Internet, the reader is referred to other postings and links to provide accurate information.
Anyone can make an accusation. However, what the former employee neglected to report was the results of the sexual allegations:
1) The first case was so fabricated that the attorney dropped the plaintiff.
2) The second case was dismissed out of hand and a copy of the dismissal order is shown at www.JusticeAndTruth.org .
3) The third case was settled for a nuisance value of under $10,000.
Dr. Hendler is the author of three books, 33 medical text book chapters, and 59 articles. He received his BA from Princeton University cum laude in psychology, and also played varsity lacrosse. He received an MD and an MS in neurophysiology from University of Maryland, did a research fellowship in neurosurgery at Mayo Clinic, and did his residency in psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was president of the Johns Hopkins Hospital House Staff Council, representing all residents, interns, and medical student. He was Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Univeristy School of Medicine for 32 years, and was Presdient of the Princeton Alumni Association of Maryland, The Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Association of America, and The American Academy of Pain Management.
Comments about Dr. Hendler from his colleagues can be found at the following links:
www.MensanaClinic.com/comments/physicians.pdf
www.DiagnoseMyPain.com/testimonials.html
www.dmsci.tripod.com/CL-3Hendler.html
and comments from CNN can be found at
www.Transcripts.CNN.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0309/27/smn.04.html
Dr. Hendler did lose his medical license, because he was trying to help patients with chronic pain. He had a narcotics contract with his patients for whom he prescribed narcotics, and one of the conditions of the contract was to return unused narcotic medication before an new narcotic prescrition would be written. This was to prevent overuse of nacortics, or diversion of narcotics, i.e. selling the unused portion.
Dr. Hendler asked the DEA what to do with the left over narcotics, and received no answer, so he kept the left over narcotics in his office, in the original bottle in which they were dispenses from the pharmacy, with the patients' name on the bottle, and the number of pills in the bottle marked on the bottle and in his chart. The bottles dated from 1995, 1996, etc al the way to 2006.
He was charged with "possession of narcotics with the intent to distribute." The DEA said he should have flushed the narcotics down the toilet and put a note in his chart he had disposed of the narcotics.
So, you determine if it is more credible:
A) to have the actul left over narcotics in his office, in the original dispensed bottles with a proper count of pills matching his chart notes or
B) As suggested by the DEA, having just a note in the chart saying he had disposed of the narcotics.
Dr. Hendler received a sentence of 18 months probation before judgement, as the result of an Alford Plea, where he did not admit any guilt. However, legally, this is considered a guilty plea, and for this reason, the Medical Board revoked his license.
So, you be the judge...was this fair treatment to a physician who was seeing patients 80 hours a week, seven days a week for 30 years, who wrote extensively, was nationally recogized by professional organizations, and his colleagues, and who dedicated his professional life to trying to help patients with chronic pain?
#2 Consumer Comment
AUTHOR: PainClinicPatient - Sugar Land (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Monday, January 25, 2010
POSTED: Tuesday, January 26, 2010
As a patient of Dr. Hendler's I can say with 100% certainty that I would be dead if Dr. Nelson Hendler had not accepted me as a patient. I spent over two months at Mensana clinic from 2001 to 2003 and had 3 surgeries in Baltimore Hospitals with the help of Dr. Hendler. Without the expert medical care I received at the hands of Dr. Hendler I would not have survived. I traveled from Houston to Baltimore and paid my living expenses at Mensana Clinic out of my own pocket because the best doctors in Houston told me there was nothing wrong with me. Five surgeries later I am alive and live a decent life. I'm still in some pain, but it is managable. It was not managable before I arrived at Dr. Hendlers clinic.
During my stay's at the Mensana Clinic I never once saw or heard not even one durogatory comment from a patient about Dr. Hendler. What I did hear was hundreds of people just like me that owed their life to this man.
My guess is you are former patient or employee that was fired or released from his care because you were simply a drug addict that could not get what you wanted from him.
I would highly recommend Dr. Hendler as well as any web based products he sponsors that will help other physicians, patients and insurance companies determine if their situation could be improved. When you suffer from long term dibillitating constant pain no matter what it takes you deserve the best treatment available to help you through life. Without Dr. Hendler, I would not have a life. I truly owe my life to this man. I hope you find another outlet for your pain, rather than trying to destroy what is left of such a great man.
Carlos
Houston, Texas
1/25/2010
#3 Consumer Comment
AUTHOR: bill dunsmuir - Plains (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Monday, February 14, 2011
POSTED: Monday, February 14, 2011
I have many years as a former patient of Dr.Nelson Hendler, and your ripoff report is rushing , rushing, rushing to judgement!!!!Trust me , and about a few thousand of his former patients , this man saved our lives!!!Yes , that's correct , "SAVED OUR LIVES"-The trouble here is that , Dr.Hendler was never a "WHORE" for the insurance industry, particularly the workers comp insurance industry.If any one sector of the insurance business, or I should say Big, Fat, Wealthy Insurance Business , would love to see a fantstic, caring , compassionate doctor and human being go down , it would be them!!!! This man treated me , at no charge for over three years , even though court orders were in place , the greedy insurance companies never paid him.When I offered to pay him with my own money , he looked at me and said, Bill, I took an oath , to help people , this is what I do, don't worry about the money,it will get paid ". He also was the best diagnostican in the pain and physical medicine business. And this garbage about sexual allegations, came from an ex-girlfriend , who succeeded in destroying his reputation and business, because he fired her after she nearly ruined his patient load!!!This man is not a thief , he and his family are mulit-millionaires , nearly billionaires, and they made their money thru hard work . This is a man , (I spent months at the Stephenson Clinic), that worked tirelessly 70-80 hours each week.And I can get many , many more of his former patients to concour with what I just wrote.
And for the drug distribution , bullshit!!!!!If anything , He was more on the cautious side , than what the news and papers were trying to sell the people!!!!And , I seen many a sexy, georgous woman , go into his office and come out thanking him,not trying to extort money with improper sexual conduct allegations!!!like I stated previously, that came from an ex-love that thought she was going to marry ther billionaire doctor and have it made, and when it went sour , because of her , she came up with story after story.. Ask any former patient , not one of us ever liked her, we all knew what she was after. And to help more, doctor Hendler is a good looking , young lloking for his age , intelligent , articulate , man , that could have just about any woman he met, honestly , just being himself, so this "CRAP", about sexual favors is bull--and the gun story is even worse--this man lived for hunting and fishing , with the little time off he ever had!!!I SAW MANY GUNS IN HIS CLINIC AND WE TALKED HUNTING , and fishing and weapons , no thug !!!GOT IT !!!He took a personal interest in every patient that was thrown away by fancy medical clinics, and greedy insurance companies , and found their source of the problems and got them to a better place!!!I believe he should have been voted AMERICAS BEST PAIN DOCTOR MANY TIMES OVER---This is as good as a human being as there is --He never took political sides either, so that is why no favors for him , as to ease his troubles , just think if he gave freely to the greedy , jerks that run for office , as the big insurance companies do, there would never have been an investigation, period!@!!!!!!!---don't worry Dr.Hendler you will always be the best to all your former patients , except the few that are looking to cash in for free , for something that never happened!!!!you are still the BEST!!!!!Dr.Reg. Davis feels that way also!!!!!!!--YOU KNOW I AM A STRAIGHT SHOOTER!!!!!!B.D --PLAINS,PA