University of Virginia Plastic Surgery

If you’re reading this, good job! You’re doing your homework and not just taking someone else’s word for it at the UVA breast care center like I did. Dr. Christopher Campbell is an excellent plastic surgeon as long as you don’t encounter an issue. How’s your luck? He misdiagnosed me with complex regional pain syndrome suddenly after an echocardiogram wand got jammed into my left lateral side too hard. I had zero pain previous to the echocardiogram. He said I should have been healed and the echo shouldn’t have mattered. Maybe I was healed, but I’m not indestructible. The breast implant dislodged, sagged, and I was left in horrible pain. I had extensive nerve pain and stabbing chest pains. I can’t pass an EKG. He didn’t believe I needed a surgery to repair my left breast, just pain management. UVA pain management refuted his diagnosis of complex regional pain syndrome. I guess being disfigured is fine and in pain after a whole year in chemo, immunotherapy, and mastectomy. It’s just sagging after only two months post reconstructive surgery. I finished infusion on November 7, 2024. I got dismissed from UVA plastics on December 23, 2024. I don’t even have eyelashes or eyebrows. I have some hair due to wearing the cold cap during infusion. The empathy from this organization towards a cancer patient is just so low to non-existent in my personal experience. It’s really hard to get an appointment in plastics as well, unless the “gods” approve it. UVA patient relations is like the fox watching a hen house and the CEO was of no help to me either. Plastics can just treat cancer patients how ever they really want to and throw them out like trash after I spent over a year driving 90 minutes there and back every three weeks. I’m sure this kind of pain and stress has been detrimental to my condition. If my HER2+ breast cancer comes back prematurely, I won’t be surprised. I’m still in pain (Feb 21, 2025) waiting for my upcoming surgery, since I had to start all over with another hospital and doctor. The Johns Hopkins doctor I went to had a very different opinion and approach. He immediately said I need surgical repair after examining me. I did not have to ask for one. I got a neurography chest MRI and now I will have repair surgery. Then he asked if I agreed with the plan he suggested, since it is my body. Soon I will look and feel better, no thanks to Dr. Campbell and UVA plastics. Whose opinion would you believe—Johns Hopkins—one of the finest and smartest hospitals in the world—or UVA?

The office was clean, staff nice, Dr seemed thorough. My consultation was in December '23. I let them know I was ready to pay and book my surgery at the end of the appt, and was told Dr Gampper was about 2 months out and they would call me back. I called and left messages for 3 weeks straight. Finally, I got a call back saying he was booked out so far into June they weren't scheduling anymore for a while. I could not believe I paid $100 and was just blown off. Here it is March, and no one has called me about scheduling. I'm having my surgery in Midlothian this week with another Dr who booked my surgery while at my consultation.

Communication here is AWFUL! Was gave a list of things to get to them and needing to get a CT scan of my abdomen. Turned out I had a seroma a very big one of which the NP thought my organs were protruding my abdominal wall. My surgeon here in Lynchburg reached out to the NP and asked if they could take care of this seroma while doing the tummy tuck since they would be in the same area she said she would speak to the Dr and get back to him. Had my appt with my surgeon today and he had text her twice she had 2 weeks to get back to him and not a word. Very poor considering now this is the 5th surgery on my stomach when it could've been one stone killing 2 birds so THANK YOU UVA FOR NOTHING VERY UNPROFESSIONAL. So now I will have this surgery and then another one down the road for a tummy tuck

After multiple phone calls the week of May 15-May 19, 2023, getting the appropriate referral from her doctor, calling back again and again to make sure they got the referral, calling again and again to attempt to make an appointment, not once did anyone from this office return a phone call to my daughter to schedule an appointment to see the surgeon. If this is the way all new patients are handled, I’m not sure how anyone would even be able to see a doctor in this practice. The whole experience has been very disappointing.

I had top surgery by dr. Stranix and he was absolutely amazing. I could not be any happier. I have bad anxiety and he is always extremely comforting and never made any situation uncomfortable. I would recommend him to anyone! He’s not a surgeon who is in this for the wrong reasons he actually cares about his patients. Also the office staff is amazing and always made sure I was comfortable.