Fulmer Benjamin Banks Dr

I went to Dr. Fulmer after years of lower back pain. He sent me for an mri and turns out I had a herniated disc. He told me it was large and I needed surgery. My surgery was scheduled for a Monday so the Friday before I waited for a call to tell me what time to arrive. No one ever called so around 3 I started calling and emailing trying to find what time to be there. Finally got a response. Morning of surgery I arrived at said time. An hour after waiting, his office called me. Which is separate from surgery center. They said “Dr. Fulmer was looking for you this morning.” I informed them I was in the waiting room and had been waiting an hour. Turns out they had the wrong number for me. Another hour later I was called back. Once I was in the room I waited another couple of hours. After surgery I was in a lot of pain. The nurse says “you just had surgery you’re going to be in pain”. Then she looked at my arm and the iv had ruptured and my arm was swollen bad. I guess then is when they started a new iv and gave medicine or something because I don’t remember much of anything after that. My husband and the nurse had to dress me because I could not wake up. I was VERY sedated. I was there 12 hours and it was a terrible experience. Recovery was terrible. The stitch job he did was TERRIBLE. Then eight weeks later my back still hasn’t healed properly no infection it just hasn’t healed and it still scabbed badly so I had to go back and see him. I told him my back still felt pinched and hurt the same way as before surgery. He said I would be ok and was very dismissive. If you want someone who is going to listen to you this is not the doctor for you. The surgery did not help and the recovery is terrible! If you MUST have surgery I would NOT recommend this doctor or surgery center

Dr Fulmer and his staff are very friendly. They do their best to help all their patients. Dr Fulmer has operated on my neck 2 times and I have an appointment to see him about my lower back.

Paralyzed my vocal cords during surgery. At my post surgery appointment I questioned him about it, he didn't respond and then he dismissed me. My previous surgeon, who retired, would not dismiss me for at least 9 months after my 2 neck surgeries. My ENT is the one who said my vocal cords had been paralyzed during surgery. I've had several procedures done that didn't help and had to have vocal cord implants as a result. I will never be able to sing again.

Easily the worst doctor’s office I have ever dealt with. My husband had an appointment last week. Dr. Fulmer was nice and fairly helpful. But we had a simple question after that. I have spoken to them on the phone 6 times now and they absolutely REFUSE to ask the doctor the question. They promised he’d call us back and then 4 days later after no call I spoke to them again where they said we’d have to make another appointment if we wanted to speak to him. To ask a question about a medication he prescribed during the last appointment?! That’s insane. The staff is incredibly rude. Go literally to any other office and you’ll have a better outcome Edit: After speaking with another nurse who actually was helpful, Dr. Fulmer was finally asked our question and we are thankful to her for doing that. I understand this is a large office and we only dealt with a portion of it. I cannot speak to the helpfulness of the other doctors and staff. Dr. Fulmer was nice and helpful. The second nurse we dealt with on the phone was very helpful and the male nurse who set up the physical therapy was nice. The original nurse and the administrative lady we spoke with were condescending, spoke over us, lied about what was originally told to us we WERE told that Dr. Fulmer would call us back and made this a terrible office experience. Therefore I stand by that I would not recommend this office and that is was the worst doctor’s experience we’ve had. I’m really astounded that a simple question to the doctor has resulted in all of this. This could have been solved very easily by just asking the doctor our question when we called the first time.

Almost 6 years ago I thought there was nothing that could be done for me. I was sent to see Dr. Fulmer and he said he thought he could help me. Boy did he. My life is now worth living. Thank you Doctor and your staff

I've had severe pain throughout my body for over 10 years. Turns out I've had a herniated disk. Dr. Fulmer did my ACDF surgery and I have been pain free ever since. Even went back 2 weeks after the procedure. I have been recommending everyone that needs a neurosurgeon to Dr. Fulmer. 100% happy with my care.

Dr. Fulmer performed a laminectomy on my lower back in March. As soon as I woke up I knew he had fixed the issue. I went to LSI in Tampa for the same precedure a year earlier. It did not fix my problem, but Dr. Fulmer did. He tried to get me to postpone my surgery and have pain blocks done. After talking with him and my wife for a week or so we decided to do the surgery. I walked out of the recovery room about an hour after the nurse woke me up. No Back Brace, No problems. I am 42 and not 100% pain free, but what Dr. Fulmer worked on is great.

Dr Fulmer and staff are very compassionate straight forward group. He has helped me regain some of my youth at 40 I don't feel 90 in chronic pain when I walk after back surgery 8 weeks later he did my neck. I'm 3 weeks out of that major surgery ,but desipte healing pain I feel better already. Highly recommend this group!

Recently saw Dr. Fulmer about a new symptom I started having which is numbness in my toes, feet and lower legs and also in my right hand/arm. The only thing he said was “do you want to have an MRI?” Several weeks later he had a nurse call me to say the only thing on the MRI was old decompression fractures. I see a pain doctor on a regular basis because after Dr. Fulmer did fusion surgery on my back two years ago I am still in a lot of pain. So I had the MRI info sent to my pain doctor to see what he thought. I got a call today from him saying the MRI showed I have some narrowing in my spine at L3-L4 and would I want to try a pain block? Why didn't Dr. Fulmer say anything about this? I will not EVER go to this doctor again and I recommend that no one else see him either! He doesn’t care if you are in pain unless it is an easy fix that he can do surgery maybe?

Doctor Fulmer did a great job on my back. His office staff is terrible. They messed up my FMLA short term disability paperwork . Admin was absolutely rude for months no listening . I had to do a DR appoint to get attention to the problem/paper work nurses simple mistake which could have been a quick fix turned into a nightmare for over 3 months because of admin wanting to blame me and not actually address problem. If you don't work Go here if you hold a job have bills beware,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, if you need important paperwork filled out correctly