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People. Don't trust this doctor. He is dishonest, dangerous, careless, and eager to perform invasive unnecessary surgeries. I trusted him despite getting 4 other opinions informing me not to go through a surgery he recommended and consequently lost my hearing caused by the surgery he performed on me. Red flag to warn the naive people, "hundreds" of positive reviews.

People. Don't trust this doctor. He is dishonest, dangerous, careless, and eager to perform invasive unnecessary surgeries. I trusted him despite getting 4 other opinions informing me not to go through a surgery he recommended and consequently lost my hearing caused by the surgery he performed on me. Red flag to warn the naive people, "hundreds" of positive reviews.

May god save your life from this place and from these doctors.
Don't believe to any magic surgeries that cured dizziness even if you read hundreds or thousands of miraculous blurry reviews. My surgery with Dr. Gerard Gianoli was nothing but an ear butchery that ended up in a series of life devastating neurological disasters and that condemned my life into an existence of sheer misery, after which Dr. Gianoli disappeared into thin air.

If Gianoli was an eye surgeon he would have left me blind, if Gianoli would have been an oncologist he would have injected me with cancer cells, but Gianoli is an ear doctor so he took away my hearing and he took away my balance and he gave me a tinnitus in return, he made me hostage of his office because I came back and paid him for more testing, I paid him for more surgery and his lawless income never stopped. Gianoli understood the perks of his all cash practice in Louisiana, he could kill his patients and bear no consequences. "It鈥檚 like, incredible."

Gianoli is a lying crook and tells people they have a fistula of the round window when they do not. Does this for money and then later when that fails he wants 10k plus 3k for testing. Straight up lying crook. Dr. Wacko Gianoli.
Beware of his fake reviews on paid sites.

I saw Dr. Gianoli five times and every time he gave me a new misdiagnosis. He insisted my vertigo that kicked in immediately after his surgical procedure had to do with the other ear. What an unlikely calamity. Really? On the same day of the surgery? When I told him about the pain in my ear, he told me there wasn't any pain in my ear. One thing is for certain: this doctor who brags on his expertise serves probably two lords, one of them is mammon. The Lord of Greed. Beware of anyone who claims to be "an expert." Most experts in any industry will NEVER claim it. They may show it to you, but you won't hear them or others claiming it. In many cases, when someone claims he or she is an expert, he or she is a con artist who is trying to cajole you into taking his or word without any outside verification. When in doubt, step back and doubt. Studies show there are more sociopathic doctors than previously suspected and one of their gaslighting tactics is the good ole "I'm an expert" claim.

Ask yourself why insurance isn鈥檛 accepted? And why the focus is on 鈥榬are鈥?controversial diagnoses? They hand out expensive treatments and controversial dx鈥檈s like candy. Go some place reputable.

If you鈥檙e okay with your doctor telling you that the pain you鈥檙e experiencing in the same ear you just had surgery couldn鈥檛 be caused by the surgery and therefore not their problem then chose this guy. I will not recommend Gianoli to anyone, even my enemies.

Gianoli is a hard core predator in a lamb skin. Instead of simple medication to control blood pressure for me, he put me on diuretics and aggravated my situation badly. Once I was doing so bad he told me that only surgery would help me, he cut off my ear, and now its pure misery without balance, partial hearing and a throbbing tinnitus . Other ENT doctors from Tulane University could not find any reason to justify Dr. Gianoli's ear surgery. When a doctor deprives you from your most important sense for no reason that is a hard core predator.

Dr Gerard Gianoli is very good at what he does, lying and scamming people! Seems like the majority of patients get the same disgnoses of plf and he wants to perform surgery. Of course in the beginning he makes it seems like surgery is the last options and it can be managed with lifestyle change, then medicine….when that doesnt work then he will lead you to believe surgery is the only option. After he said surgery was last option I decided to get another opinion, now 8 month after seeing a new team of doctors that I never had what Gianoli claimed I did. I am being treated for vestibular migraines and have had zero dizziness. I now have my life back! When under the care of Dr Gianoli I couldn't drive, couldn't take care of my kids; barely myself. Being late 20s, I was ready to give up and after reading about his botched surgeries I am happy I was not another victim.
Dr Gianoli forwarded my records to new doctor and no where in my records did he ever mention the diagnosis of plf or that he was urging me to have surgery. Seems to be what he did with many patients.

Stay away from the dangerous office of dr Gianoli, this delusional doctor is committing surgeries based on idiosyncratic beliefs that are contradicted by science or reality. He perfected his lies to the point he cannot tell what is real from what he is imagining. I fell prey for his lies and ended up with permanent hearing loss, a dissected vestibular nerve and an excruciating tinnitus. This doctor should not be practicing anymore and should be sent to the Devil Island for the harm he caused me.

Do NOT, Absolutely do Not go to Gerard Gianoli. He will tell you that you have an inner ear fistula if you have balance problems, put you on horrible medications that will make you much worse and then convince you that you need surgery. Once done with the surgery, you will feel even worse and he will not acknowledge unless it is to say that the problem is that your other ear needs surgery, too. He IS a scam artist.

I have taken some time to reflect on my father's experience at the Ear and Balance Institute, and I feel like I have to leave this feedback for anyone considering them for treatment. We were told about EBI while my 82 year old father was in St Tammany hospital recovering from surgery. He has suffered with constant dizziness for 5 years, and has had every test and/or exam know to the medical world, with no relief. So I called EBI and was told about them not accepting insurance, and how this would allow for more personalized treatment, since they weren't dependent on referrals from other doctors, or insurance company approvals for treatments and procedures. While not inexpensive, my father and his children thought that the possibility of him finding out the cause, and subsequent lessening of his dizziness, far outweighed the out of pocket costs, which he had no trouble affording. He went through an initial exam and a battery of tests, went on a special diet, and took prescribed medication, and followed all of the doctors instructions in the hope of reducing the dizziness. After having crystals reset in both ears, and six weeks or so of the diet and medication, the dizziness lessened only slightly for a day or so, but quickly returned to the previous level. At this point Dr Gianoli, wanted my dad to meet with his partner Dr Soileau, later the same afternoon as our visit with Dr Gianoli. As I made the appointment, I asked if the $250 charge for the second opinion visit with Dr Soileau would be covered under the $250 visit fee paid for the visit we had just finished. I was met with some resistance from the lady behind the counter that always handled the billing, so I asked if they would please check whether the fee would be waived, and give me a call, but that I was coming back for the second opinion visit regardless of having to pay the $250 fee or not. We were happy to pay more the $6000 for our visits and treatments, but if I can save my father $250, I'm certainly going to try, as would any of you who are reading this review. I received a call from a different employee about an hour or so after we had left, telling me that Dr Gianoli, had now changed his "best course of action" to getting another second opinion from another doctor. I was shocked to hear that because I had questioned the extra visit fee, that we were being told that we should go somewhere else to get a second opinion(a second opinion that we had NEVER requested, but that Dr Gianoli had requested). I was assured that that was not the case, but honestly, how else could that have been translated? If I don't question the fee, my dad returns that afternoon to meet for the "second opinion" that they recommended, and everything is good. Had they called and simply said that they were sorry, but the fee had to be paid, and would we still like to come for the visit, I would have been completely satisfied. While meeting with Dr Soileau for another 3 hours, my dad was told that he had an irregular heartbeat(he had just had an echocardiogram less than 60 days before and his heart was fine), and we should consult with his cardiologist before coming back. As we walked out, Dr Soileau shook my hand and smiled at me and said "we're going to fix your dad, don't worry!" On my dad's next 2 nurses visits, no irregular heartbeats have been detected, nor have any been detected since. After spending over $6000 out of pocket with them, and being told how they were going to help(I took this with a grain of salt), we have not heard a peep from EBI, since the day we left that "second opinion" visit. So my dad is still dizzy, $6000 poorer and feels betrayed and lied to by both doctors at EBI. Since telling our story to anyone who will listen, I've discovered many other patients of EBI that payed a lot of money out of pocket with zero results. Fancy machines and sophisticated testing is no substitute for quality patient care, formerly called bedside manner. Whatever happened to "do no harm?"

I was treated by Dr. Gianoli for what appeared to be Meniere's. He told me I had permanent damage to my ear and was going to be deaf. He wanted to do lumbar puncture, then surgery, I refused and he put me on different meds that had me like a zombie. Luckily, I found another Dr. who was wonderful and got me off all of the meds. My hearing is normal and I have been doing great for many years. He might be a very good doctor to others but I am done with him! I am happy to tell him his diagnosis was WRONG! Dr. Gianoli has no empathy and I doubt his honesty, he made me feel so scared and sad. Always get a second and third opinion – and find someone who cares, who accepts insurance and has no 鈥淚 am God complex鈥?

Cash for false positives

Gerard Gianoli with his false positive tests and with his false positive reviews made me spent a few thousand dollars on various balance tests but never bothered to explain what these tests were showing. Nothing smelled right to me at first place, and everything started to stink when he suggested to cut my ears. Be aware of his knife madness!

Gerard Gianoli from the Ear and Balance Institute is coming of as a very caring and compassionate healthcare provider, and he also comes off as a competent doctor, unfortunately, for my experience it turned to be a false pretense. I had a surgery at Pontchartrain Surgery Center to repair a fistula that according to his clinical impression was the source of my dizzy spells following a car accident. This surgeon claimed that I needed a minimally invasive outpatient surgery that would take care of the dizzy spells, but this was not the case for me. I ended up deaf in one ear, damaged facial nerves and more intense dizziness, after which he offered to "fix" for cash money my other ear as well. Do not be deluded by his kind appearance covering up for his poor surgical skills and poor medical judgement. My experience with this doctor has been fatally disastrous for my quality of life.

Dr. Gianoli destroyed my ear and destroyed my life with a PLF surgery. A brutal and catastrophic surgery performed under any standard of care. It is the opinion of every top neurotologist that Dr. Gianoli performed an inconceivable charlatanic surgery – to seal an imaginary hole, based on a non-reliable diagnosis, and all this after my dizziness already cleared up!
NYU, John Hopkins, Harvard , Penn State, Mayo Clinic – none of these hospitals perform PLF surgeries because they do not believe that such condition exists. Dr. Gianoli in his own article published on the State Medical Society is quoted: "There is no objective intraoperative test to confirm the presence of a PLF. No tests with adequate sensitivity and specificity are available.鈥?Not only that Dr. Gianoli did not have any reliable diagnosis, but he also solicited for this "simple procedure" that "I would benefit from", "a simple procedure that would help me" — when my dizziness already cleared up – to prevent from the dizziness from coming back. "Do it! – It will help you!" – he urged me. And I paid with my life for trusting this doctor, who submitted me to a hundred percent risk – zero percent benefit surgery.
Ahead of the surgery, I told Dr. Gianoli that I would never do any surgery with any fraction of risk that would impair my excellent hearing or leave any noise in my ear. But Dr. Gianoli, lie after lie, dismissed every possible risk and fear of mine. Dr. Gianoli impaired my excellent hearing, he plagued me with the ultimate torture: a permanent infernal tinnitus, drilling and reverberating into my brain – day and night and nowhere to escape, a living hell purgatory. Since the surgery, my brain and body are collapsed by chronic vertigo, motion sickness and chronic nausea, life has become a struggle to survive, basic functioning has become impossible for me. Since the surgery, my ear is completely clogged, pressurized, painful and feels like it is about to burst apart, my own voice is muffled, outer voices are distorted. I will never enjoy music again, I will never hear silence again. Gianoli's surgery left me on permanent disability, but according to him, after the surgery his tests "are showing" that there is a new PLF that opened up in the other ear causing the vertigo! Doctors remain shocked, appalled from the magnitude of his diabolism. Would any honest doctor on earth put a healthy happy patient under general anesthesia, perform a lumbar puncture and cut their ear with no reliable diagnosis and when patient's dizziness already cleared up? Would any doctor with a conscience reassure a patient that their hearing would remain intact, and that there is no fraction of risk to remain with any tinnitus in the ear after cutting their ear? Under the oath of first, do not harm, Dr. Gianoli acted as a ruthless predator for his few all cash bucks. Human life had no value – he did not spare me, he did not spare my family. Dr. Gianoli destroyed my life. From a happy, active, productive person to permanent disability. Dr. Gianoli left me in an inhuman livable condition, in permanent atrocious suffering. I could not go back to my work or my studies, I cannot take care of my kids, I cannot drive. As my young kids see me struggling along the day through endless tears with horrifying noise in my ear, imbalance, vertigo, nausea, ear pressure, pain, difficulty hearing, noise sensitivity — all man made by Dr. Gianoli — they tell me, "you could not know, but he knew what he was doing, he tricked you…" Dr. Gianoli robbed my blissful life, my happiness, my dreams. Every moment I am grieving my life that I lost. Who gives permission for a doctor to lie for his own benefit? Who gave permission to Dr. Gianoli to mutilate my body for his own profit? Who gave a license to Dr. Gianoli to end up my life for his self-enrichment?