Neurosurgeon - Cedar Rapids, IA

"I had a Laminectomy from Dr Bader. I had no pain meds during this surgery. No one checked my IV and my veins blew. I told them I was in pain and no one listened. I asked them to kill me. My Surgery was at 7:3O AM and at 12:01 midnight bas soon as my husband left on the elevator the entire team showed up in my room and said I needed a second surgery. They took me to the MRI machine and then took me down 1 floor on the elevator to the basement into a room with low ceilings and metal beds with holes in them lining both sides of the room. I question why I wasn't in the surgery room they wouldn't answer me and when I asked if they forgot something in me and that's why they waited for my husband to leave , they put me to drop. I woke up at 2:30 AM still without pain meds, begging them to throw me out the window. I then demanded the CEO of the hospital in my room. She came in noticed I wasn't recieving pain meds because my vein had blown. I was soaked in urine because they never put a catheter in for the second surgery. The CEO put in a new IV have me a pump with morphine for pain. Cleaned my urine soaked hair, and gave me dry clothes. Dr Bader sent me home with severe nerve pain and I couldn't walk. I had to go to my family physician to get Gabapentin. Im positive they forgot something in my back during the 1st surgery and had to retrieve it which is why they waited for my husband to leave on the elevator, and came in my room as soon as the elevator doors closed. And they did the second bogus surgery blaming it on a blood clot, and they did this in the morgue. Not the surgical room. As to hide the fact that they screwed up. I would not recommend Dr Bader and his team for another back surgery ever again. "