Kitchen Accident Sends Immigration Attorney to Emory Hand Specialist
Myron Kramer, 59, president of Kramer & Associates, PC, an immigration law firm in Atlanta, had just started to learn how to cook. He was chopping vegetables in July 2004, when he lacerated his thumb extensor tendon with a knife. Blood was flowing nonstop, when his wife drove him to the Emory University Hospital (EUH) Emergency Room. Kramer couldn't move his thumb at all in any direction, except down. EUH iced the wound, took X-rays, stitched it up, and referred him to a hand specialist. Dr. Gary R. McGillivary, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics at the Emory Orthopaedics & Spine Center, at Executive Park, performed the surgery on July 14, 2004, in the Operating Room (OR) at the Center, which was very convenient to Kramer's home.
"We repaired it; Mr. Kramer was splinted for a while, did physical therapy and ended up with a nice result," Dr. McGillivary comments.
"The surgical suite was unbelievable; the nurses in the OR were great, but I was most impressed with the doctor," says Kramer. "Dr. McGillivary was wonderful, extremely competent and reassuring, very pleasant and easy to deal with."
"I was very concerned about losing the ability to play golf and do personal training and exercising," adds Kramer. "It's incredibly frustrating to realize just how dependent you are on small movements in your fingers. But the surgery was completely successful. I was 100 percent satisfied. After several months of physical therapy, I have full use of my hand and absolutely no limitations on it. It's as good as new. So the story had a happy ending. I've since referred my wife to Dr. McGillivary after she experienced pain in her wrist, and she, too, was very complimentary of him."
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