Please refer to my review for Dr. Fredrick Pennings for additional details. When I needed it, Dr. Weaver was the first Neurosurgeon I saw for my problem with my spine. Dr. Weaver immediately recognized my need and scheduled my surgery for the following week with his associate, Dr. Pennings. Dr. Weaver was not involved in my surgery, so I cannot speak toward that, but as a consulting physician he was fabulous. I feel completely at ease with him and trusted him so much that I actually canceled my second opinion and went immediately with Dr. Pennings because he recommended him. As a courtesy, Dr. Weaver also reviewed a second MRI for an additional disc bulge I had higher in my spine that another surgeon I had consulted with earlier in the year on that other issue you left me confused and terrified about. He gave me a valuable opinion and assuaged those fears with a mere sentence or two. Dr. Weaver is the kind of doctor other physicians should aspire to be. I would feel comfortable in the assumption that Dr. Weaver is as capable a surgeon as Dr. Pennings, but I hope you never suffer the need to find out for yourself.