It's been a while since I made a post on Reddit. First things first, I hade made a previous post about a foot surgery I had around 6 months ago. Around 2 months ago I had my second surgery. Since than I had lost all confidence in my podiatrist, and now my military career is being cut short. let me explain.

this is my original post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/army/comments/14e6zr9/meb_for_botched_surgery/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1

Last year I was in a training accident which had left me with a bunion on my foot and a TBI. In the beginning of this year I had been getting scene at the TBI clinic for my head injury and all was good. So I get my first surgery on my foot and the doctor fucks it up, and I am left in more pain than I was originally in for 4 months. In that time, there hadn't been any healing at all in my foot. 4 months after my 1st surgery I am put up for another surgery in which prior I get my blood drawn so that they could check my vitamin d levels to ensure that I am good to go for surgery. The dangerous had specifically said and I signed off on "if my vitamin D levels are too low they will not proceed with the surgery". No one had ever reached out to me about the results of my blood work so I assumed that I'm good and prepared for the second surgery. I have my second surgery and my foot still felt the same, and all the X-rays continued to look the same as it did immediately after the first surgery, no healing at all. Around 2 weeks ago I have a neurology appointment in which I am informed of my vitamin d level being critically low and that I would immediately need to start simultaneously taking vitamin d shots and pills at the same time. The neurologist found this out by looking at my blood work from the second surgery.

This is the problem I have with the podiatrist beside them boching my original surgery. They had ordered a lab to check my blood to see if I was good to go for surgery 2 and had never once mentioned anything about my vitamin d levels being low at any appointment I had with them. I go to my appointment yesterday and bring up what I had been told about my V D level from neurology. Note, my wife is with me at every appointment. The podiatrist had said "I had told you and your wife multiple times at every appointment that your vitamin d levels were low and had prescribed you vitamin d medicine to take regularly." What she said isn't true. I had grabbed all my records about a month ago and searched for anything related to vitamin d in my doctors notes and my prescriptions. There were no mentions of V D at all. I had checked with the pharmacy and other doctors about it also and they also confirmed the same.

This might be such a big deal to most. To me, it makes me think of why the doctor would lie about something so small and how can I trust this doctor to treat and operate on me when I can't get the truth on something so simple. It makes me wonder if my military career wouldn't be getting cut short if I had a different doctor who actually knew what I was doing and had went to a civilian instead. Currently I am looking into getting moved to another doctor and filing a ICE complaint about my current podiatrist.

TLDR: AIR FORCE podiatrist botchs OPs surgery and proceeds to lie about medication and conversations during appointments, leading OP to loose confidence in them.