Michael Fischbein

Dr Fischbein did my 2^nd open heart surgery with aortic arch replacement! Elephant trunk! Amazing results! I love Dr Fischbein and his team!

Michael Fischbein and his team performed open heart surgery on me and saved my life. God bless him and his team.

I had a open heart surgery by Dr. Michael Fitchbein in Stanford hospital. I’m glad he was my cardiovascular surgeon because he change my life and I feel like a new person. He’s an excellent surgeon, God bless him ! My never ending thank you to Dr. Michael Fischbein MD !

I had bypass surgery at Stanford Hospital. The surgeon was Michael Fischbein MD and he made two inexcusable errors that caused me a great deal of needless suffering. His first blunder was to carelessly crush a bundle of nerves in my left breast using a clamp. He extensively injured nerves that ran down to my left hand. As a result, I suffered severe pain all the way down my left arm for months. In addition, and catastrophically, the nerves crushed by Dr. Fischbein would not work any longer; I was unable to open my left hand after the surgery was over. Fischbein and the nurses said this damage would go away in a couple of weeks. It didn’t. Frighteningly, I was unable to open my left hand for months; no typing, no picking things up, no holding anything. If I wanted to open my left fingers from being a balled fist, I had to reach over with my right hand and open them. Utterly frightening. Stanford Hospital’s response: uncaring dismissal. They had made their $ 450,000 from the operation and were satisfied with the results. I was left a cripple. I found a hand rehabilitation therapist on my own, at my own expense, and with her great help I regained use of my hand. It took a year to get full use of my hand back. The hand therapist is Lori Stotko in Menlo Park. Dr Michael Fischbein had put me on Oxycontin painkiller just after the operation. I learned later that I should have been left on this powerful drug for a maximum of two weeks. Well, once I had left Stanford Hospital and he had moved on to his next victim, I mean patient, he forgot about me and I stayed on Oxycontin for a month. In addition, I had been prescribed another pain killer, Lyrica, for the intense nerve pain I endured all the way down my left arm due to Fischbein’s inept surgery. Nobody was monitoring me, I was just sent home with two powerful pain killers and forgotten. I healed only very slowly and felt especially horrible. One day I felt like I was going to die, so a friend took me to a Palo Alto Medical Foundation cardiologist, who discovered that my blood pressure was ⁷⁵⁄₅₅. This catastrophically low reading was caused by the unmonitored interaction of Oxycontin and Lyrica. My condition slowly improved once I was taken off both drugs. This overall experience weakened me so much that it took much longer to recover from a Michael Fischbein surgery than if I had been lucky enough to have another surgeon. As I mentioned, it took me one whole year of dedicated therapy and weekly appointments at my own expense to recover use of my left hand. I would avoid Michael Fischbein MD at all costs if you are considering heart surgery at Stanford Hospital.