Cedars-Sinai Orthopaedics at Huntington

I am giving Risser two stars ONLY because for several years they provided good service to my elderly mother. Then everything changed, and I would give them negative stars if I could. I found them rude, unhelpful, and borderline negligent. My 92-year old mother had been receiving Cortisone shots for her arthritis for several years, but without explanation, Risser suddenly refused to grant her appointments. After several attempts to call and ask why, a lovely scheduler called Mom’s doctor and told me that the doctor looked at the most recent x-ray and, because of the cracked femur, the cortisone would do no good.Nobody knew about the cracked femur: not her physician, not her facility, not her emergency contacts, not the patient herself. This was incredibly distressing because the previous x-ray had been taken at least six weeks earlier, and she’d been allowed to use her walker, resulting in several significant falls. We needed more information.I tried to politely contact Risser man