Dallas Has a Real-Life Dr. Gregory House in Dr. Richard Buch

interesting

what was the point of this article other than defamation of a human being who has a family, wife and kids?

My husband went to this maniac about 2 years ago for some surgery. We knew right away that he was an asshole, but had we known all of the things in this article we would certainly have sought another surgeon.

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What a one sided story. How about the thousands of patients that other ortho-docs have turned away in fear of lawsuits that Bush has worked on and been successful. How about the numerous unqualified nurses that have been sent to help Bush during surgeries, that the hospital knows that are inept, but refuse to take action against because they do not want lawsuits for discrimination. How much at risk was your plump patient, why did another orthopedic surgeon send her to Bush. How about the over booked cases that the hospitals are prone for, running late, no staff available, sufficient staff not scheduled, or no house keeping to turn over rooms, could this be a cause for Bush not being able to visit patients in office. How many patients has Bush seen from other doctors who have failed surgeries and infections. How many other doctors have the same work load that Bush has. What is his success versus failure rate. How many of these cases are more complicated than his colleges. I personally think that you have painted a very unfair picture of a doctor that goes beyond the call of duty. I would recommed him to any one.

I know Dr. Bush very well. That part about a "Bush caning" in ten years, I have never heard that term. I will not put my name for fear of backlash from the facility I am employed by. Dr. Bush can be difficult and hard to work with but those of us that work for him frequently are not offended by his behavior and actually prefer to work with him. What you inaccuratly wrote as "fucking stupid" told anyone who knows and works with him regularly, that is not something he would say. He does have frequent comments but that is not one of them. This article seems vindictive and ill-written. I find it intresting that out of the thousands of patients he has cared for and cares for now you only had a handfull. Why don't you "research" the healing abilities of the morbidly obese or as you wrote "plump". Also infection is a risk for anyone with a break in the skin. Patient non-compliance IS the number ONE cause and effect of future problems with any suegery not just Orthopedics. If YOU had done any research you would know that. Dr. Bush works on people that no-one else will touch and frequently repairs the mistakes of many other surgeons. He treats infections and wounds that other doc's can not fix. In my facility alone the competition is fierce and very politically motivated. To think that other surgeons are not backstabbers or dishonest is ludicrous, surgery is a business. To imply that he is a bad surgeon is very poor investigative research on YOUR part. To dig up dirt on him is pathetic and obviously the best you could do. You have proven your newspaper is a rag equal to the Enquirer. The only reason I know about and read this article is because like the Enquirer it is a source of gossip. The only thing I regret is the fact the this comment, unlike your article, may as well be like "pissing in the wind" because only you will see it. This article angers me because most of his patients love him and those of us that work with have a great respect for him. We are a very racially diverse group, so to call him racist is also completly once again miswritten. You have shown that the only thing The Observer is good for is places to eat, events in the area and oh yeah escort services and any other illicit activity one may want.

What an pathetic article can't you find anything better or more current to write about. This seems like a smear job.

What an pathetic article can't you find anything better or more current to write about. This seems like a smear job.

VERY UNFAIR ARTICLE. DR. BUCH TAKES CARE OF PATIENTS WITH VERY COMPLEX PROBLEMS. FEW ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS ARE WILLING TO TAKE ON THE TASK OF CARING FOR THE PATIENTS THAT DR. BUCH ROUTINELY TREATS. HIS SUBSPECIALTY IN ORTHOPAEDICS, ORTHOPAEDIC ONCOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF INFECTIONS, IS KNOWN TO HAVE A HIGHER COMPLICATION RATE THAN A SURGEON WHO DOES ONLY ROUTINE CASES. MANY PATIENTS ARE REFERRED TO DR. BUCH BECAUSE HE IS WILLING TO TAKE CARE OF THESE PROBLEMS THAT OTHER ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS CANNOT, AND DO NOT WANT TO, CARE FOR.

IN CASE SOMEONE DOESN'T REALIZE... INFECTION IS A RISK OF ANY SURGERY. INFECTION HAPPENS AFTER ELECTIVE HIP OR KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY ON AVERAGE 1 TO 2% OF THE TIME (CERTAINLY EVEN HIGHER IN THE MORBIDLY OBESE). ALL ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS WHO DO HIP AND KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY HAVE TO DEAL WITH INFECTION AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER. THIS ARTICLE UNFAIRLY POINTS BLAME TO DR. BUSH FOR POSTSURGICAL COMPLICATIONS THAT ARE COMMON AND KNOWN TO HAPPEN WITH FREQUENCY.

AS AN ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON MYSELF, I KNOW THAT DR. BUCH'S SKILLS AND PRESENCE IN DALLAS ARE AN ASSET TO THE COMMUNITY. THIS ARTICLE FOCUSES ONLY ON THE NEGATIVE. WOULDN'T IT BE A SHAME IF ARTICLES WERE WRITTEN ABOUT EACH OF US THAT ONLY FOCUSED ON THE BAD CHOICES WE HAVE MADE AND THE POORER RESULTS THAT WE HAVE EXPERIENCED IN LIFE?

A COLLEAGUE IN DALLAS

Once again The Observer is raking the smut. I echo the comments from two other orthopedists in the metroplex. Dr. Buch has always accepted any difficult case I had without ever asking if the patient had insurance. I have known him for almost twenty years and the article rehashed everything that Channel 5 and Jay Gray said back in 2001. Your mention of Dr. Buch leaving rods in the patient's wrist is misleading. That patient had two pins in his wrist which are routinely used for temporary fracture fixation. Office staff are trained to remove them. I was interested to read that your "source" was a nurse who worked with Dr. Buch. That's funny because in the past 10 years he has had 2 nurses work for him and I know neither of them would have said anything negative to anyone in the media. Dr. Buch offices at Medical City and the orthopedic department there has been run by one group forever. They kept rotating chief of orthopedics throughout their group and continue to rule the department. They also have controlled hospital staff for years by having one of their members be on the board as well as president of the medical staff. None of them were even half as busy as Dr. Buch and jealousy was well known. If Dr. Buch ever criticized an OR nurse they would write him up and the next thing he would get a nasty letter from the chief of orthopedics. I do agree with one part of your article, he is an asshole. I have told that to his face many times.

I find it funny that the man is a well documented, walking malpractice suit, just waiting to happen... but it looks as if all his current employee's are here defending him. What's next, his Minister telling us what a fine Christian man he is... so what if he has mangled a few people?

Patients must give ALL THEIR INFO FOR DOCTORS FOR FINANCIAL REASONS (ok I am fine with that) but doctors ARE PROTECTED WHEN IT COMES TO THEIR INFORMATION.

LAZY PEOPLE OF THE WORLD UNITE AND DEMAND THAT THE LAWS BE CHANGED SO THAT DOCOTRS MUST POST ALL LAWUSITS, PAST& PRESENT AND THEIR OUTCOMES SO WE CAN MAKE INFORMED INFORMED CHOICES

No excuses No justifications by lawmakers will do anymore POST THAT INFORMATION ON THE FRONT DOOR OF ALL DOCTORS OFFICES NOW!

To the person who wrote comment #6. You said its not like him Dr Buch to say "fucking stupid", Well it is cause I heard him say it to me. In fact he was standing one day at the nursing screaming obscenities to the nurses. I was dumbfounded. The nurses from the OR told me he does that all the time.

I have worked with Dr. Buch as well; I will not defend his personality, because he is an asshole, which he readily admits. My problem with the article is that it implies that the reason he is so busy is that it's all about the money. Dr. Buch NEVER turns down a patient due to lack of funding; furthermore, the article should have emphasized the fact that Dr. Buch is a specialist in ortho-oncolgy: he routinely operates on very sick patients with either primary or metastatic tumors to areas like the hip--i.e., bloody and difficult, high-risk surgeries that most other orthopods would turn down. Regarding the patient that had to wait forever in his office: Dr. Buch is busy b/c he is in demand, but also because he will schedule in a patient in clinic and the OR in very short order: it is routine for him to have a patient present to him in clinic on a Wednesday and be scheduled for surgery the following Saturday (it is not uncommon for him to have 12-14 hours of scheduled, elective cases, plus any add-ons or emergencies).

Lastly, the term "fucking stupid" is incorrect; anyone that has worked with him knows that his preferred term is "fucking moron."

Finally, lastly: in the photo insert of D Magazines top doctors cover, that photo is not of Dr. Buch (I guess you were trying to show what D Magazines cover looks like, but it's confusing to readers, and perhaps embarrassing for the bearded doctor pictured with this article).

I like how number 6 says they know "Dr. Bush" very well. Since the article is about "Dr. Buch", I guess we can assume they know someone else very well and not the Dr. Buch who should not have a medical license...I also find it funny that Dr. Kevin Gill commented in this article. If anyone knows him--he is an a**hole also. He pretty much told me I was stupid if I didn't have back surgery first to reduce my "bulge" and then again next summer when my insurance "might" cover artificial disks.

I found this article, if that's what you want to call it, when I was searching for "What to expect after a total knee replacement surgery". You see Dr Buch is my Dr (I'm very proud of it and I DON'T mind at all putting my name here) and has been for almost 8 yrs now. He's doing a total knee replacement on me in early October. I think this article is totally biased! If you would have researched more, you would have found that there are so many people like me that own a huge gratitude to Dr Buch. If it weren’t for him I would have surely lost my leg about 71/2 yrs ago. You see I was one of those patients that was sent to Dr Buch after someone else totally screwed up my leg trying to fix a FX. I had an open wound from an infection after another Orthopedic Surgeon that was supposed to very good at what he does, screwed it up royally. My foot got so badly infected after surgery he done to fix a fracture, the infection had gotten into the bone. I had an open wound that practically went all the way through my foot, from one side of my ankle to the other. The original Dr finally told me, "I don't know how to fix this Lisa you need to find another Dr". This is after many months of him telling me when I would ask him questions about how it was doing to “just sit back and ride the bus, and let me do the worrying about your injury and how to fix it to him”. Gee thanks after you let it get so bad that there probably wasn't anyone that could fix it. Thank GOD I found Dr Richard Buch. Sure he's an ASSHOLE, I knew that from about the third visit I had with him, everyone who knows him at all knows that, but he's a brilliant Dr. He gets the worst cases imaginable and works miracles on these patients. It's expected when a DR does the kind of work he does that he's going to have some that doesn't have as good a turn out as I have. But you can't crucify him for that. If he couldn't fix it then it probably couldn't have been fixed by anyone else. Or the person was sent to DR Buch way too late to do anything for them. I've worked in the medical field for yrs before I injured my foot as a Paramedic in an ER. I've seen many DR but none quite like DR Buch. He's definitely one in a million. But like most other good Orthopedic Dr's he's kind of full of himself. But when it comes to the care you get from him it's all good. I don't give a rat’s ass what he does in his private life as long as he doesn't bring it into the operating room with him and he doesn’t as far as I know. If he does it definitely doesn’t affect how wonderfully he is at his job. Apparently he doesn't let it affect the care he gives because I've been with him for 8 yrs and never knew any of this was going on before a few days ago when I found this piece of crap article. I can only imagine the amount of stress he's been under all these yrs, and yet he still gave me the best treatment I could have gotten from anyone. Sure I've had my disagreements with him about his attitude, I even said some pretty nasty things to him after I felt he was being an asshole to me. But we both got what we wanted to say out and it never affected the quality of care I got from him. Like Dr Gregory House his bedside manner and people skills are far less than perfect. But that doesn't mean he's any less brilliant in the operating room that he would be if he were better at people skills. I believe he really does think that he's just talking to us on our level. It just doesn't work for him. Instead people get offended at what he says and feel demeaned by him. At least that's the way I feel sometimes. My whole point here is he is a wonderful Dr and is the absolute best at what he does, and that should really be all that matters. I don't go to a DR to make friend. I go to have them fix something that's wrong with me. He does that wonderfully and I personally owe him a huge debt of gratitude for saving my leg for me. Sure my leg is far from perfect but that's not Dr Buch fault. It's just par for the course. I definitely don't blame him for the fact that I can never do the work I love so much again. Like he's told me many times, for him to get my leg anywhere near what it was before the accident would be like trying to make chicken salad out of chicken poop. I'm very grateful just to have my leg and be able to use it as well as I do. And after my knee replacement I'm very hopeful that I’ll be well on my way to a far better life that I would have had, had I not ever met Dr Richard Buch. Thank You Dr Buch for being the wonderful Dr that you are. And to all his critics, well I feel for your pain and only wish you the very best in your recovery, but please don't feel the need to take it out on the one Dr that had the best chance there is at fixing your problem, just because he couldn't. Nobody is perfect. Not even Dr Buch.
A very grateful patient.
Lisa Moen