Numbness In Head

The case of Dr. Konasiewicz: Ailing patients speak out

Since reporting in May that former St. Luke’s neurosurgeon Stefan Konasiewicz settled five malpractice cases for $3.2 million — including two that accused him of contributing to his patients’ deaths — the News Tribune has been contacted by 13 more patients of Konasiewicz wanting to tell their stories.

The total number of patients or family members of deceased patients the News Tribune has interviewed has now reached 29. Those patients all were treated by Konasiewicz while he practiced at St. Luke’s between 1997 and 2008. Here, we profile four of those patients.

Brad Cristilly

At age 37, Brad Cristilly said, his life was only getting better. He was climbing the ladder at Minnesota Power, rising to electrical operations coordinator and earning more than $60,000 a year. He and his wife were expecting their fifth child and had bought land in Poplar to build a new home.

Ten years later, he is unable to work, a victim of chronic pain in his back and hips that he said feels like someone has taken a searing-hot poker to his body.

Everything from walking to using the bathroom to being intimate with his wife, he said, “is extremely painful.”

He no longer has feeling in his left foot, has difficulty walking and often falls. He said he expects to be on narcotic painkillers the rest of his life just to tolerate the pain.

In April 2001, Cristilly said he was exercising at the gym when he ruptured a disc in his lower back that pressed on his back. He was referred to Dr. Stefan Konasiewicz.

After the surgery, Cristilly said, his pain increased and became unbearable. The pain and numbness in his back spread to his left side and down to his foot, causing atrophy.

He went to another neurosurgeon, Richard Freeman who, according to Cristilly’s medical records, said his back pain was from nerve root damage that occurred during surgery by Konasiewicz .

It was an injury, Freeman wrote, that has also caused Cristilly’s intense pain and weakness in his left side, and it “cannot be repaired.

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