Dr. Marc E Musson, DO

Very professional with superb bedside manner

Dr. Musson is not opposed to alternative therapies, and that makes it easy to avoid opiates. Thank you sir.

I was coming off, a few days earlier, perhaps the most awful experience interacting with physician that I've ever had (Paul Coelho, look him up, read the reviews, and stay away from him!), so my expectations were low. So I was very anxious going in, mostly because that bad experience was fresh in my mind. That being said, my first meeting with Dr. Musson was the complete opposite. He has a relaxed, genial yet professional manner. He spent a good deal of time with me, he listened, and he explained things pretty clearly. I'm new to the area and needed to find a pain management doctor to continue my treatment. I've read a lot about (and even written about) the prescription painkiller crisis, so I expect any doctor to consider a new patient carefully if narcotics are involved, and I'm sure Dr. Musson did that, but he didn't go overboard and assume the worst. Whereas the first pain doctor I visited here immediately treated as an addict, and one of the other pain clinics in the area seems to be very liberal with pain medicine (It's principal doctor is ranked 15th in Oregon for prescribing pain meds) It seems that Dr. Musson takes a middle road, exercising caution, formulating a practical approach to treatment and listening carefully. And while he mentioned a couple of minor procedures that could be options down the road, he didn't push them and understood that I've gotten minimal relief from the many, many epidural injections I've had over the years. Granted, this was my first and only appointment so far (I put down 5 stars for follow-up as a guess) but first impressions are often very accurate. It's stressful enough moving across the country, so I'm very relieved that I seem to have found a good doctor.