In May of 2015, I injured my knee playing for the professional ultimate frisbee team in NYC. The injury consisted of a sharp pain at the front of my knee, which limited me from doing anything more than jog around with extreme discomfort.
After consulting with doctors in NYC and receiving a few misdiagnosis, I finally obtained a consultation with Dr. Moira McCarthy. Within our first appointment she properly diagnosed me as having cartilage damage in my knee cap and a partial patella tendon tear. She then laid out options for us, the last one being surgery. After following the plan subscribed there was unfortunately no significant improvement, so in September we decided to move forward with surgery. I consider myself extremely lucky to have been in Dr. McCarthy and her staff's care for this process, with an additional huge thank you to her office manager, Alicia. My insurance company was not easy to deal with, but they (the team at HSS) did everything they could to help.
The surgery ran extremely smoothly. Every staff member was incredibly professional, with excellent customer service. The recovery was certainly not easy but I stuck with it and within five months I was running again and have been able to do some serious hiking and backpacking less than 1 year of the surgery. My overall quality of life has increased so much because of Dr. McCarthy and her staff, I cant thank them enough. I would come back in heart beat but hopefully won't need to!
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