Dr. Ata Ul Mohsin MD

June 2, 2016

Consult Care Pain Medicine
Ata Mohsin, MD
501 Airport Road
Panama City, FL 32405

Dr. Mohsin,

I was referred to you in 2012 by the rheumatologist I was seeing at that time.  My diagnosis at that time was fibromyalgia and major depression.

On the day of my appointment, I waited in your office, on your uncomfortable waiting room chairs, in extreme pain, for four hours before I was shown into an exam room.  I was treated like a drug seeker and a criminal by your staff.  I was forced to give a urine sample for drug testing, which I passed. 

After I waited another hour in your exam room, you made your appearance.  You did not physically examine me.  You did not even come close enough to touch me. You looked at me and informed me that I was FAT.  You told me that if I would only lose weight, I would not be in pain. You spent less than five minutes in the exam room with me.

You apparently did not even bother to read my medical records sent over by the referring physician.  If you had, you would have seen that I gained over 70 pounds in less than a year’s time, as a result of the pharmaceuticals that my physicians were giving me.  Neurontin, Lyrica, Savella, Abilify, and Cymbalta, none of which had any effect at all on the pain I was experiencing. 

Every time I saw my doctor, I expressed my concern at the alarming amount of weight I had gained. Every time, the doctor told me to continue the meds, even though I was getting NO relief from the pain and in my opinion, the negative side effects far outweighed any benefit I might have gotten from the medications. 

I had been in pain for over a decade when I saw you, and I was NOT fat when the pain began. But you did not bother to ask about any of that, and when I attempted to tell you, you ignored me. I left your office in tears that day.

I have lost 100 pounds since stopping all of the above mentioned medications. My pain is more extreme than ever. I fall asleep at night in pain, I wake up every morning in pain. My pain levels on a 'normal' day are generally a 6-7, higher on a 'bad' day.  

Recently I found a primary care physician who actually cares about his patients.  He ordered tests. He found that I have an autoimmune disease.  He referred me to a rheumatologist who also cares about his patients.  He ordered extensive testing and this testing revealed that I have advanced rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, and vitamin D deficiency. 

Because of the horrible treatment I received by you and by your staff, supposed “medical professionals”, I gave up on getting any sort of reasonable quality medical treatment.  For the next four years, I did not see a doctor. I lived in extreme pain, near suicidal, hating my life and the body that I was trapped in.

I should have filed a complaint on your behavior with AHCA the day I left your office, but the combination of the extreme pain I was experiencing 24/7/365 in addition to the horrible way I was treated by you and your staff made me completely give up on my own health. 

I am writing you today to tell you this.  You are a piss poor excuse of a physician. You are a poor excuse of a human being.  You have NO empathy, compassion, or concern for your patients and your attitude is reflected loudly by your office staff. You should not be practicing medicine at all, much less pain management. 

If you possessed even a shred of human decency, you would close the doors of your so-called practice and go into a profession that would never require you to come in contact with another human being again.  Of course, I have no delusions that you will do that.  You are obviously more concerned with chasing the almighty dollar than you are with helping people.  In any case, now you know the damage that you have done.  I could have been getting actual treatment for my illness in these last four years, instead it has done nothing but progress further.  No thanks to you.

Sincerely,

[name redacted]