Addiction Medicine Doctors who are Physicians - Salinas, CA

"Worst Doctor I have ever seen and one of the worst people I have ever had the chance to meet. Doesn't believe medicare patients should have any rights or choices in their care or even to a second opinion. Poor people do what they are told or they do not get any help. Infantile listening skills that consist of repeating one "fact" back to the patient and refusing to listen to anything else because he has already repeated something to you to "prove" he is listened. He kept repeating that he hears me that my life has sucked for 30 years. I corrected him twice and he continued to shut me up every time I had something to say by repeating loudly "I hear that your life has sucked for 30 years" I was under a two year plan that was supposed to include surgery. I moved & changed my entire life to do it right. I had multiple neurosurgeons review the options and tried everything else. I was scheduled with Dr Santillano by the clinic while my coverage transferred for a single visit because my regular doctor moved at about the same time. He insisted I completely change everything, cancel surgery, change medication and just take a bunch of pain medication for the rest of my life. In 10 minutes he overruled both neurosurgeons & every doctor I had ever seen from Virginia Mason in Seattle to Stanford. He thinks he's that good but he isn't and that makes him dangerous. You can't have incompetent, angry doctors moved down the food chain until their victims are too weak to fend for themselves. I don't care if some school sold him a degree or how much debt he incurred. It's not the responsibility of the weak to bail people like him out. His crusade to preserve government funds by denying care is completely illegal and unethical. Avoid him at almost any cost. Report him if you are a victim. Doctors like this need to be fixed or removed. They cannot be put at facilities for the poor or allowed to harm people who are unable to defend themselves. "