DR. MATTHEW DELUZIO, DO RUINED MY HEALTH
A 78-year old man, I was under Dr. Deluzio's "care" for over the last year. I was referred to him after a "suspicious" tiny node was found on my lung. Fear was used on me because I used to smoke. He said, "in my opinion you have lung cancer," a statement which he now denies: I have a witness. He recommended a risky biopsy which punctured my lung, resulting in the collapse of that lung two times. I was in Baystate Hospital in Springfield for nine days where I almost died twice. The biopsy found no cancer, and later the node disappeared altogether. As a result my breathing is irreversibly terrible, in spite of much hard work with rehab therapists, breathing and heart specialists, and serious heavy medicines. I was a world-class brass player (I have my own Wikipedia page, am on sixty-five famous albums, mostly as a featured soloist; and I regularly performed my compositions with my own world-class band). Now I am no longer able to play. I am sick, gasping for my life from even taking out the trash.
My first appointment with Deluzio was at his office in Springfield, but the following three were by telephone. He forgot all three. Indeed, when I was in hospital due to the biopsy gone wrong, he didn't even call for our phone appointment—not to mention come across the street in person. Upon my release from the hospital I called Deluzio's office for a make-up appointment and was told that I would have to wait several months. It was only because I appealed to his secretary's humanity that I got to reschedule the following week instead. He didn't care what he had done to me. And he lied: said that the hospital had called and canceled my appointment. But as Interim Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Baystate Health, he is in charge. For the second and third appointments I had to call three times. It took over an hour and a half for his secretary to get him for the third. In all cases he lied, blaming others.
Deluzio is unprofessional in the arrogance of his assumption that the greater good of early diagnosis for the possible cure takes precedence over that of his patient's lifestyle. His creation of a life not worth living (some of his patients must wheel a 4' canister around with them), often takes precedence over the classic doctor's rule of "do no harm." The lung biopsy he promotes is extremely dangerous for a 78 year old, so risky that he had me sign a release—after scaring me of my impending death by lung cancer. In my case he said that I had been “just holding on." But nonetheless I WAS holding on, had a good, healthy lifestyle (going to the gym a couple of times a week and exercising and practicing my horn daily): I was able to perform on a wind instrument as a soloist on a truly world-class level and do my daily chores without difficulty. Now I am always tired, and I cannot even do normal chores without being doubled up struggling to breathe. I curse the day I ever entered Dr. Matthew Deluzio's office.
By the way, I tried repeatedly to write a shorter version of this review in Healthgrades, and they are totally dishonest, doing everything to make it impossible to do so.