Alan D. Kaye, MD, PhD
The way Alan D. Kaye, MD, PhD, sees it, Ronnie did not have to die. Although this 50-year-old patient was far from the picture of health, the lower lumbar facet injection that he underwent to manage his pain after a fall at work could have—and should have—been uneventful. Instead, things went very wrong.
After being diagnosed with lumbar spondylosis, Ronnie (all patient names in this article have been changed, although the details of these cases are real)