Dr. Matthew Rusk, DO

I recently was admitted to Buff Gen due to the chronic leg pain in my lower extremities. I am a complex patient & have undergone multiple admissions & surgeries at this hospital. I was in a coma here in 2019. I was put under his service upon admission & this provider made my stay terrible. He did not follow the pain regimen I get when I am here due to the bias he has against narcotic medicine. I am not a patient that is opiate naive; in fact I prescribed an opiate at home. Unfortunately, my home dose was not touching it. My surgeon even told him what my regimen was & asked him to follow it which he did not do. He even stated he has his own personal feelings about narcotics. So his bias opinion hurt me in the long run. EVEN AFTER finding out there is an actual reason for this pain, he still would not provide the regimen that I follow when here. He put me in a category that was not fair. All I did was advocate what works. He is horrible.