Dr. Michael Dwain Plooster, MD

Botched spine surgery requiring multiple revisions and corrective surgery with a UW surgeon. Stay away!!!

I had a badly broken wrist 17 yrs ago. He told me I will have problems with my wrist the rest of my life. I have no problems with my wrist whatsoever!! Thank you Dr Plooster for fixing my wrist!

i would not send my worst enemy to this man. He is a arrogant As _ cant wait to get you to surgery. Lies to your face.i can believe he is still a doctor.

I am very comfortable seeing Dr. Plooster I believe I have been seeing him for care since 1990. He has performed a couple of surgeries on back and neck that have been very successful. He has never misdiagnosed any of my injuries. No complaints!

Great doctor who explains exactly what is wrong and what the options are.

Think twice before seeing this Doctor, I wish I had done so. He has the bedside manners of a great white shark thirsting for food! He is a biggoted horses behind! My gray haired husband came in the room with me, he asked me if he was my son...mind you, I have no gray hair. He spent more time telling me my problem is being overweight than he did on the real issue. The only good that came out of that visit was a prescription for a nerve blocking medication.

I have full confindence in his skill and after having him operate on my back I was able to get the best job of my life.I drive over 2.5 hours to see him and he is the only Dr.I have 100% faith in. He listens and understands people that work physicaly every day.

In the fifteen plus years I have had him as my MD, I have experienced none of the behaviors listed by others.He has always been cordial, explained my diagnosis in terms understandable to me, his bedside manner good and office visits good. His private life is his own private life and should not enter into any medical evaluation. The skills he has are the important areas from diagnosis to discharge. Thank you Dr Plooster for being with me when I needed you.

I think that Dr.Plooster has been passed by time. He may have been an Okay doctor at one time, but hasn't learned any new proceedures in about 20 years. He is currently trying to talk my wife into a full Knee replacement after having her knee scoped for bone chips and spurs. She's only 40 and has never had malor injuries.

I found Dr.Plooster to be rude, arrogant and downright callous. As I was fainting from a very painful procedure, he told me I had to get up because he needed the table for his next patient. When I asked what he was doing during teh procedure, he told me to be quiet as he doesn't like to talk to patients. Never again!

my experience with this quack was probably the worst year of my life as of yet he was ready to cut and take my insurance money so after my first back surgery i was the same as before go back he says disk is still bulging gotta cut you up again so while rooting around with the stick he uses he cuts my spinal cord so that made christmas great as i had no fluid in my spine which fills your skull around the brain as well so he roots around again i go in for third follow up he pulls my staples snips an internal stitch he left hanging out gives me a script and says nothing else i can do for you so i am now worse than ever and need to search for weeks to find a doc that would see me and he says yeah you are messed up no disk left time to fuse your spine and i am not the only one i have met many others with the same story