Christopher Solaro, MD

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THIS IS A MEDICAL MALPRACTICE ALERT; IF YOU NEED MEDICAL CARE PLEASE GO ELSEWHERE. My husband ended up having a BELOW THE KNEE AMPUTATION due to the BWC (Blessing Wound Center) failing to diagnose and treat him according to established protocol. My husband was diagnosed with a bone infection in October 2016. Dr. Timothy Smith, Vascular Surgeon performed the bone infection surgery at Blessing Hospital in Quincy. Almost immediately, my husband found himself under the regular care of the BWC because his wound would not heal. This went on for approximately two years, his foot had turned black, and his calf also turned black and bone fragments were coming out of his foot at the wound site. Still, no one at the BWC was concerned or trained well enough to follow established medical protocol and culture his wound to determine if there was a bone infection. While he was given antibiotics on several occasions, they were not the correct antibiotics for his bone infection. Over an approximate two-year period, the BWC failed to diagnose him, failed to order an MRI and other diagnostic testing, failed to treat him according to established protocol and also failed to refer him to a doctor that would be able to treat him; this is MEDICAL MALPRACTICE. About six months before my husband had his AMPUTATION, I spoke with Dr. Duane Hanzel about an amputation and he advised us against it. He denied this after my husband's amputation, even though the medical record states that he would speak with Dr. Timothy Smith about an amputation, however, we were never advised of this, we learned this when we obtained the medical records. I finally lost all faith in Dr. Duane Hanzel at the BWC and took my husband to an infectious disease doctor and an orthopedic surgeon in Iowa. The infectious disease doctor advised that he must be admitted immediately because bone infections can only be treated with strong antibiotics administered by IV; over a two-year period, the BWC never knew he had a bone infection after the surgery to remove it so they never treated him for a bone infection. According to the diagnostic testing, it appears that the bone infection moved from the great toe to the other side of the foot. My husband ended up having a BELOW THE KNEE AMPUTATION due to the gross negligence of these doctors and the BWC when he only started out with a bone infection in his great toe. You can't tell it from these photos but my husband could have been a foot model before he fell into the inept hands of the BWC.